January 25, 2005

Tuesday morning XSLT-related news brief and update on status of site rebuild...

Wow! It's been 4 days since I have made a post... I have no idea what happened to my weekend and now I wakeup and its Tuesday! While I have not spent any time writing content I have had a very productive development weekend for the new site design/functionality of which I have been pretty much posting in real-time -- It seems like an appropriate activity for a blog but if you found it annoying or confusing please let me know and I'll try to avoid it in the future. There's still a HUGE amount of work to be done but the client-side QuickScan/QuickView functionality is in place so feel free to pop-in and play around with it at will. Would love to get any feedback you have :) Which reminds me... email... uh oh 8-|

FYI... I am moving towards a new posting format for the site...

...allowing for more content to come from various sources that are either accessed client-side (via a live call to Technorati or other various weblog syndication sites) or from direct syndication from other XSLT-related blogs and such -- of which I will filter and summarize the good, bad, and the ugly at days end. I will also try to do a morning news update post on days that have a significant amount of news traffic. Otherwise I plan to create a secondary feed that will contain all news that seems important enough to post but then saving any comments for the end of the day summary. The potential exists for a huge amount of traffic to come through that particular feed as I begin to create more and more automation tools to gather and harvest XSLT-related news, commentary, code-samples, etc... from various disparate sources... Unless you have a desire to have instant access to this information I don't really recommend adding this feed to your feed reader as if you think I tend to post a lot wait until I add automation to the mix :)

The main purpose for this feed will be to pull and post an increase of XSLT-related content such that when the time is appropriate and you are looking for a specific XSLT-related item it will be available via a fine tuned search mechanism. As mentioned I plan to spend time at the end of each day filtering through this feed, finding that which seems important enough to post to the main feed, and then put it into one summary post. This will hopefully make it easier for both of us as it will reduce my time spent writing posts through out the day and will keep your feed reader a bit more manageable, at least from the XSLTBlog standpoint. Yet all of the content will still be made available, just in a more concise format.

Thats not to say that if the time/content seems worthy of a post I won't post it to the main feed. But the flood of news items that tend to come in with little or no comment will be shifted to one post at the end of the day and, if necessary, a morning post of overnight occurences... FYI... I tend to work on GMT even though I live in the states so my morning is based as such... so what will be a late afternoon summary post for those of you in the states is actually a late night, before I go to bed post... Not that this really matters all that much beyond having an understanding as to why a post marked "evening" is showing up at 3 in the afternoon and yet we live in or near the same time zone...

With that said theres a bunch of news-related items to reference so let me get these added to this post. Theres also some really good content from XSL-List regarding XSLT 2.0 and FXSL which I plan to cover eiter later today or first thing tomorrow... we'll see how the day plays out.

News from this last weekend and yesterday:

Stylus Studio and Mark Logic Announce Integrated XQuery ...
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... com), the provider of the industry's leading XML content server, today announced the immediate availability of new, integrated XQuery development tools for the ...

JAPISoft Announces a New Version of XFlows, an XML and XSLT ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
XFlows is an XML and XSLT integrated solution, it helps you to create complex scenarios, transforming a set of files with XSLT, publishing your result into a ...

IBM After Content Control
InternetNews.com - Darien,CT,USA
... DB2 Content Manager 8.3 and DB2 Document Manager 8.3 are the next step along IBM's path of improving the efficiency with which its products process XML. ...

Datapower adds virtualisation with XS40 update
Computerworld Australia - Australia
New software features from XML

(Extensible Markup Language) network hardware maker DataPower Technology
allow customers using its XS40 XML Security Gateway to ...

Navy
steams ahead with official XML rules
GCN.com - USA
Navy CIO David M. Wennergren said
in a memo that the rules will ensure that all service systems exchanging
data with XML are "based on a consistent set of ...

XML Smell language developed by university
The Inquirer - England,UK
A RESEARCHER at Huelva University in Spain claims to have created a version of XML that can transmit smells. Or fragrances if you prefer. ...