(cross-posted to LinkedIn) To work for a company that gets acquired is a dream for many, but one of the downsides is the potential for staffing cuts–especially for someone who’s only been there a few months. Which is to say: I’m open to work and actively seeking a new role as a software architect. Several…
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I’ve been a fan of David Mertz since I devoured (and practically lived out of) his book Text Processing in Python. So I was thrilled at the chance to be a technical reviewer for his new book Cleaning Data for Effective Data Science: Doing the other 80% of the work with Python, R, and command-line…
I’ve avoided publicizing this until there was significant content out there. Announcing a new YouTube channel: Think LIke Tesla. This channel exists to celebrate a certain Serbian inventor/pop-culture figure and help YOU become a clearer thinker. In time, it will include everyday descriptions of Nikola Tesla’s patents and experiments, as well as fundamental ideas that…
CQ, CQ, CQ. This is AJ6BD. I officially have a callsign. I can now legally broadcast on the amateur radio bands. I’ve been building radios since I was ten (really). I had plenty of help from my mentor, who taught me more than I realized there was to know about electronics, AC theory, signals, modulation,…
I’ve got a new book coming out. Check out some of the details in this short article. Overcoming Anxiety Join my mailing list for a free mini-course and be the first to hear about publication!
Check out this post at its new home on Writing Through The Fog.
I am trying something new with the GeekThoughts domain. Instead of pointing to my blog, it’s pointing at some cool geeky things on a CMS that’s easier to update. Won’t you check it out? geekthoughts.info
Quick update here: if you are reading this, you’d probably like this short story, named in honor of Dennis Ritchie, FREE and currently burning up the charts for 30 minute reads in Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense. Doing pretty well in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk as well. (link fixed) Do a solid for readers everywhere and…
Based on the huge number of mail bounces I’ve been getting today, it looks like an unscrupulous somebody forged my return address on a bunch of mail. Perhaps you even sought out this blog based on the distinctive domain name. Some subject lines in use: it’s so nice to write to u maybe your lady…
If you’ve come here because of something you noticed in your HTTP access logs, read on. Who is doing this? This is a personal project of Micah Dubinko. It is completely separate from anything related to any employer. What is ASLbot? In the immediate future, ASLbot is no more than a personal research project. It…
This week marked the MarkLogic World conference and with it some exciting news. Without formally “announcing” a new release, the company showed off a great deal of semantic technology in-progress. Part of that came from me, on stage during the Wednesday technical keynote. I’ve been at MarkLogic five years next month, and the first piece…
MarkLogic 6 launched today, and it’s full of new and updated goodies. I spent some time designing the new Application Builder including the new Visualization Widgets. If you’ve used Application Builder in the past, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the changes. It’s leaner and faster under the hood. I’d love to hear what people think…
I’m en route to Balisage 2012, though beset by multiple delays. The first leg of my flight was more than two hours delayed, which made the 90 minute transfer window…problematic. My rebooked flight, the next day (today, that is) is also delayed. Then through customs. Maybe all I’ll get out of Tuesday is Demo Jam….
I’m getting ready to leave for MarkLogic World, May 1-3 in Washington, DC, and it’s shaping up to be one fabulous conference. I’ve always enjoyed the vibe at these events–it has a, well, cool-in-a-data-geeky-way thing going on (like the XML conference in the early 2000’s where I got to have lunch with James Clark, but that’s…
I’ve been thinking a lot about big data, and two recent items nicely capture a slice of the discussion. 1) Alex Milowski recounting working with Big Weather Data. He concludes that ‘naive’ (as-is) data loading is a “doomed” approach. Even small amounts of friction add up at scale, so you should plan on doing som…
I’m sure this is old news by now, but here’s one more data point. As it turns out, XForms Institute uses an old skool XForms engine written in Flash, dating approximately back to the era when Flash was necessary to do XForms-ey things in the browser. The feedback form for the site is, quite naturally,…
MarkLogic 5 is out today. Here’s five things beyond the official announcement that developers should know about it: If you found the CQ sample useful, you’ll love Query Console, which does everything CQ does and more (syntax highlighting!) Better Search API support for metadata: MarkLogic has always had support for storing metadata separately from documents….
The awesome thing about the internet is that you never know who’s reading your stuff. Case in point: during the depths of the hypertext linking standards discussions, after folks realized that XLink wasn’t going to work with HTML (not even with XML-flavored XHTML), all kinds of proposals flew around about what to do about it….
Running commentary on Twitter, but hurry, Twitter’s search infrastructure has the long-term memory of a fruit fly. Posts tagged with MLUC11 will soon be dropping off the search event horizon. -m
Not an April Fools joke. I’m now tweeting in professional capacity. I’ll talk about XML technologies, the web, and various and sundry geeky topics. -m
Today I exchanged electrons with a major airline, which will ultimately result in them removing a certain amount of abstract currency units from my account. In other words, see you all at XML Prauge 2011. I’ve never been to this conference before, and each year I hear better and better things. Looking forward to it….
The remarkable C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is offering XForms training in Maryland (at Mulberry Technologies), Feb 14 & 15, 2011. This is a two-day hands-on introduction to XForms. Check it out. This is a great opportunity to learn more about XForms. -m
This is a non-technical description of why Yahoo! Mail is unsafe to use in a public setting, and indeed at all. I will be pointing people at this page as I go through the long process of changing an address I’ve had for more than a decade. What’s wrong with Yahoo Mail? A lot of…
Good news for big data fans. The FCC has released APIs to several large databases involving broadband statistics, spectrum licenses, and some related topics. I haven’t had a chance for a close look yet, perhaps we can do that together. Link. -m
This is indeed a sad day for all of us, for on October 1, a great app will be gone. Though we hardly had enough time during his short life to get to know him, like the grass that withers and fades, this monkey will finish his earthly course. I know he left many things…
At David Lee’s nocturne about XML and JSON round-trippimg, several folks were talking about a site that listed several “off-the-shelf” conversion methods, but nobody could remember the site. Late that night, with 15 minutes of battery remaining, I found it. The operative search term is XSLTJSON. -m
Join me for another Meade Classe at the Los Altos MoreFlavor brew shop. Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 2:00 – 4:00 pm MoreFlavor 991 N. San Antonio Road Los Altos, CA 94022 We will taste some meads, focusing on sensory evaluation, then walk through the steps of brewing up a batch. As usual, seating is limited,…