December 28, 2004

Hmmmm.... VERY interesting comments by Mike Champion

While I definitely plan to comment on Mike's comments a little later on I believe Mike deserves the respect of letting his points sink in before I fill your head with my opinions as to what the future holds for XSLT specifically and XML-based software development in general.

His comments from my last post can be found in the... Why do I suddenly feel like Austin Powers in Las Vegas? Anyway...

I think I have mentioned before that I am more than happy to host any and all conversations via comments and trackbacks specific to anything interesting which would include, for example, the fact that the Sonics ROCK and would exclude, for example, anything to do with the New York Yankees. There are a few other topics I would probably get annoyed by but I won't worry about mentioning what they are until they suddenly appear at which point I will delete them, claim my hard drive crashed and although I was able to save all of the content and almost all of the comments there were a few unfortunate casualties that just couldn't be salvaged from the wreckage, with a subsequent apology to you if they were yours.

Beyond any unfortunate hard drive failures however can I make a suggestion? If there is anything you have to comment that is directed to Mike specifically as opposed to his comments in general my guess is that you will find a better response time posting to his blog instead of mine as, shocking as it may be, I haven't added Mike to the ping mechanism invoked when a comment is left on <XSLT:Blog /> In fact I haven't added myself to any such mechanism either as I tend to be around enough to notice when comments are left and don't need any more email telling me something I am already fully aware of. I will keep an eye on his blog and if anything interesting arises I will point to it otherwise I will just leave things be for now.

Thanks for the comments Mike!