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If necessity is the mother of invention, standards are...
...her bastard child.
I was once relaxing with some friends and was asked, "what's the one thing you do better than anyone else?" I thought for a minute, and answered "I'm stupid. Too stupid to give up. Long after normal people give up, I just can't let things...
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DLR - The tipping point for the .NET Platform?
Some interesting thoughts on what the future of the .NET platform might hold. I agree Dynamic Language Runtime(s) will see lots of attention over 2008, and we've been here already with much of the... -
Highlights & Low-lights in Data Access for 2007
Generally speaking most prominent bloggers exercise their inalienable right to post their predictions for 2007. Instead, this year I think its useful to look back on the past 12 months to review the technology and software highlights and lowlights from the perspective data access, and XML... -
"But, what do you DO?"
My grandfather's curiosity makes him seem younger than his 90 years. After the war, he, an immigrant in NY, became, among other things, a tailor. For the past 10 years or so, each time I've visited, at some point the conversation would turn to my job, and he would pointedly ask, "But, what do...
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Transform a directory of EDI messages
We recently announced DataDirect XQuery 3.1. It integrates now nicely with the DataDirect XML Converters, and as we have the ability to query all files in a directory, this opens a... -
The beginning of the end for UDDI
Posted by Dan Foody
I recently had a discussion with one of the key industry analysts covering the SOA governance space. He said that the need for UDDI is going away – to be clear, registries and repositories are very important, but the UDDI technical standard is no longer a key...
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New product versions released!
I just wanted to let you know that we (DataDirect) have recently released new version of our XML products; all of them are available for download and free... -
Natural sorting in XQuery
Jeff Atwood touched an interesting topic yesterday, Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order. Let's sort the following strings: a, A, b, B, 1, 2, 10 The ASCIIbetical order is as follows: 1, 10, 2, A, B, a,... -
XQuery 1.0 errata published
For the die-hards, or if you care about the details, the W3C has published the first errata for XQuery 1.0 and accompanying specifications.
Errata for XQuery 1.0: An XML Query...
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