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ruminate 2011/06/26 Sisters Haiku
dev 2011/06/26 Org mode on your iphone^→>link
I don't have a smart fone, just one of those bakelite nokia's (as a colleague put it) ... but if I did I would then want to use this.GO TO LINK
ruminate 2011/06/20 XML Monks launched
dev 2011/06/18 Marmalade repo for emacs package management^→>link
I just recently declared 'emacs bankruptcy' and marmalade helped install all those emacs deps I have gathered up over the years. Not all packages are there, but very promising effort and well worth a try.GO TO LINK
xquery 2011/05/05 idiv operator in xquery^{→>gist.github.com}
The idiv operator returns an integer as a result, rounding toward 0 ... a bit strange but can save a few keystrokes when appropriate.GO TO LINK
xquery 2011/05/05 xml:id attribute needs to be unique within the specific document scope^{→>gist.github.com}
using the fn:id() function in conjuction with xml:id's is probably not relevant if you use an XML database as you should get indexes for free using plain xpath.GO TO LINK
xquery 2011/05/04 xquery memoization example for use with MarkLogic^{→>gist.github.com}
With higher order XQuery (HOX) promised for XQuery 3.0 we can now start to employ some useful algorithms, like inline caching of functions.GO TO LINK
xquery 2011/04/01 XQIB puts XQuery into the browser^→>link
At XML Prague, the guys (and gals) from ETH Zurich Systems Group and FLWOR Foundation launched XQuery in the browser ... w/o a plugin!GO TO LINK
xslt 2011/03/31 SAXON CE puts XSLT 2.0 into the browser^→>link
Michael Kay launched the impressive SAXON CE at xmlprague, can't wait to find time to play around with this! Check out the Knights Tour example.GO TO LINK
xquery 2011/03/22 Classify content with XQuery^{→>IBM Developerworks}
XQuery is a grown up language for processing data and its high time we start bringing in NLP and textual analytics into XQuery.GO TO LINK