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I've come to realize: the only useful advice that you can give (or get) is that which prompts the recipient to to unlearn something. -m
Micah Dubinko - from an XML and XForms geek
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Sunday, November 30, 2003
Saturday, November 29, 2003
Dreamhost
Dreamhost is an excellent Web host. I don't know of any other outfit that provides WebDav, full PHP/Perl/Python support, Jabber, even QuickTime streaming. They contstantly add more features, and leave the prices where they are. If you switch, tell 'em 'dubinko.info' sent you. -m
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Switching providers
At some point during the next several days, I will be switching hosting providers. If experience any problems reaching this site, try again in a few hours... -m
Saturday, November 22, 2003
DENG Modular XBrowser: Free for noncommercial use
Here's something I intend to check out soon (as in: soon enough to produce my slides and demos for XML 2003) -m
Friday, November 21, 2003
XForms and the Semantic Web
From a presentation at the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, an interesting presentation. Towards the middle it covers the connection between XForms and the Sem Web. Apparently, useful information can come from people and not just other machines. :-P
Along the same lines, is Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer's XForms FOAF application.
Expect to see more uses of XForms in Semantic Web applications. -m
Thursday, November 20, 2003
RNC does not stand for Republican National Convention
I've been working on an RNC (Relax NG, compact syntax) schema for XForms, and I have to say it's quite easy to look at, even though it uses full force XHTML Modularization techniques. After I'm a little more confident that it doesn't have a Grevious Stupid Mistake or two, I'll probably post it here. -m
Friday, November 14, 2003
Clickthrough rates continue to suck
Today's topic is click-throughs. If you read this blog from the actual web page, as opposed to say RSS, you'll see several books that I'm currently reading. Since these are Amazon associate links, I can get detailed traffic reports.
The clickthrough rates are ridiculously low, even for the post-dot-com-bust era. For instance, the top spot, currently the highly topical "Return of the King", hasn't had a single click all week. What I'd like to know is why? Is the RSS sucking away readers from the web page? Is it apathy? Bad web design? All my readership perhaps already knows Tolkien by heart?
Share your thoughts to mdubinko@yahoo.com, and I'll post the best responses (if any) here. -m
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
ebXML and UBL
Reading up some more on how ebXML relates to UBL, and I came across this fantastic paper by Eve Maler. This is not exactly new, but it's still worth a read. -m
Ornery thought of the day
Namespaces in XML sucks because it forces you to make long-lasting decisions before you have enough information to make a good choice--a situation that mirrors the creation of the namespaces spec itself. -m
Monday, November 10, 2003
Another blog sighting
Bill Trippe blogs XForms Essentials: "This is the first authoritative book on an important new topic. ... I started reading the book last week, and it is excellent."
Have you ordered your copy yet? -m
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
XForms and useful implementations
Ed Tittle writes: "Luckily for me, Micah Dubinko—author of the interesting O'Reilly book XForms Essentials (August 2003, ISBN: 0-596-00369-2)—also just published a story for XML.com entitled Ten Favorite XForms Engines"
Good to see folks picking up on these articles. Mmm, choice is good. -m
Monday, November 03, 2003
XML Takes over the User Interface
by Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research
An interesting write-up. "The latest part of the world to be taken over is forms processing."
There are a few nitpicks (claiming a "form" is just the user interface, claiming Microsoft as a leading force behind XForms), but overall a good read. This guy gets it. "Now that XForms is a standard we can see it rapidly impacting forms processing but also impacting application development." -m
Saturday, November 01, 2003
SOAS
I hereby propose SOAS, Spam-of-a-spam, an informal network where each participant puts up an RDF file containing information on recently recieved spam messages. By comparing notes, we can more effectively filter the garbage.
REPLY ME SWIFT FRIEND -m
P.S. Yes, it's mailbox cleaning time again. Away for a week at a W3C meeting.
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