April 07, 2005

Thats it! I'm moving to New Mexico...

El Defensor Chieftain: Community Calendar

Introduction to XML, 5:30 p.m. — Speare 116. "XSLT Extensions: An Extended Case Study." Free class.

In regards to my decision to head southwest if this is the last post I ever make to this blog I'm guessing my Socorro County/Bill Gates/Microsoft/Area 51/Roswell Alien conspiracy theory was right on target... but with classes like this being offered for free I simply have to take the risk. Wish me luck :)

Adding a bit of interest...

...the weekly listing of community events in Socorro County there has been plenty of XML, XSLT, and XPath (both 1.0 and 2.0 of XPath and XSLT) events taking place as well as a near 1-to-1 ratio of XML-related to Python related classes being offered each week. An interesting note can be taken when you notice that as advanced of an Alien race the Alien's of Socorro County must be they seem to neglect any coverage of XQuery as part of their weekly free programming class line-up. Hmmmm... well, maybe thats because 55% of programmers are already using XQuery and the rest... ok, sorry... it was tough to resist the temptation and I like Larry and I have a fondness for Stylus Studio so I'll just shut the hell up and go back to my hacking...

Still, its interesting to n...

ok, I'm going!...

geez, relax their XQuery phreakazoid... I really do like your little macro add-on pack (kind of like the "Plus!" pack for Windows... all the things you didn't realize you even needed and you still remain unsure why you shelled out an extra $50 bucks for it in the first place... Ahhh, the power of the "gotta have it"s -- besides, you get that extra special "Plus!" logo which you have to admit is pretty cool (no you dont, that was most definitely meant to sound sarcastic, if the rest of this isn't ;) to XPath and when you see whats wrapped up inside of my next open source project slated for release sometime Real Soon Now you will further understand that I actually think XQuery is a significant piece of our development and even non-development related future. Just keep your distant from any claims of superiority in Transformations land and you won't find yourself labeled "Sir XQu'mmunicated" come next Real Soon Now when the next set of X-specs make it to the big-time :)

Have a fantastic X-related day!

(raise of hands for those who read "X-rated" instead of "X-related" as it should have been read -- Wow! That many?! Geez, maybe you shouldn't spend so much time on the Internet... find a hobby like gardening or something... but then you would probably relate gardening to dirty and then were right back where we started.... :) Maybe you better just stay where you are. At least the rest of us are somewhat safe when you're on the 'Net instead of out prowling the neighborhood, right? Good, I'm glad we had this talk... I feel a lot better about things now... :)