tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008-08-07://53 2009-11-23T05:54:32Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38570 2009-11-23T05:54:32Z 2009-11-23T05:54:32Z

From Bruce D'Arcus' Darcusblog comes a pointer on a U.S. Library of Congress initiative for a better date format Extended Date Time Format (EDTF). ISO 8601's problem is that almost anything is a date: if my memory serves me, some...

Rick Jelliffe From Bruce D'Arcus' Darcusblog comes a pointer on a U.S. Library of Congress initiative for a better date format Extended Date Time Format (EDTF). ISO 8601's problem is that almost anything is a date: if my memory serves me, some... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38502 2009-11-14T10:41:29Z 2009-11-14T10:41:29Z

A couple of people have asked again this week for the RSS feed address for my blog. Here is is: I believe you can get the individual feeds for other bloggers on OReilly sites using the same URL and the...

Rick Jelliffe A couple of people have asked again this week for the RSS feed address for my blog. Here is is: I believe you can get the individual feeds for other bloggers on OReilly sites using the same URL and the... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38501 2009-11-14T03:37:20Z 2009-11-14T03:37:20Z

I have been thinking a little bit about whether Schematron's pattern approach could be applied to complex event processing where the input is a stream of discrete XML documents, for example each one being a reading from a set of...

Rick Jelliffe I have been thinking a little bit about whether Schematron's pattern approach could be applied to complex event processing where the input is a stream of discrete XML documents, for example each one being a reading from a set of... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38472 2009-11-11T10:03:26Z 2009-11-11T10:03:26Z

I enjoyed Adam Bosworth's Talking to DC. But don't his points apply to most software/interface specifications, without being doctrinaire? What is the difference between his Standards work best when they are focused and, say, Agile's YAGNI?...

Rick Jelliffe I enjoyed Adam Bosworth's Talking to DC. But don't his points apply to most software/interface specifications, without being doctrinaire? What is the difference between his Standards work best when they are focused and, say, Agile's YAGNI?... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38471 2009-11-11T08:02:24Z 2009-11-11T08:02:24Z

Two months ago I alerted readers Europeans: only two weeks left to comment on ICT & standards whitepaper. I am not sure on which dots actually join up, but a Dutch website has what is claimed to be a leaked late draft in English of European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (EIF) Version 2.0. Here are some of the general recommendations related to standards and issues raised on this blog.

Rick Jelliffe Two months ago I alerted readers Europeans: only two weeks left to comment on ICT & standards whitepaper. I am not sure on which dots actually join up, but a Dutch website has what is claimed to be a leaked late draft in English of European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (EIF) Version 2.0. Here are some of the general recommendations related to standards and issues raised on this blog. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38436 2009-11-06T03:35:58Z 2009-11-06T03:35:58Z

So I guess when we look at a system's architecture, the first thing we can do is ask 'Is this XML here being used strategically or tactically?' A strategic use might be, for example, to allow long-term archiving; a tactical use might be XML in AJAX (where using JSON would be another tactic.) If the answer is tactical, then we can ask 'Is it implemented in a way that allows flexible rearrangement, when a different tactic becomes appropriate?'

Rick Jelliffe So I guess when we look at a system's architecture, the first thing we can do is ask 'Is this XML here being used strategically or tactically?' A strategic use might be, for example, to allow long-term archiving; a tactical use might be XML in AJAX (where using JSON would be another tactic.) If the answer is tactical, then we can ask 'Is it implemented in a way that allows flexible rearrangement, when a different tactic becomes appropriate?' tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38337 2009-10-29T08:17:43Z 2009-10-29T08:17:43Z

IBM marketing guy Rob Weir has half of a new series of blogs The Final OOXML Update up. Readers may be surprised that I agree with many of the points he makes, among them, the importance of a balance of interests, the need for continued participation and the need for followthrough on the BRM decisions.

Rick Jelliffe IBM marketing guy Rob Weir has half of a new series of blogs The Final OOXML Update up. Readers may be surprised that I agree with many of the points he makes, among them, the importance of a balance of interests, the need for continued participation and the need for followthrough on the BRM decisions. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38186 2009-10-14T13:59:40Z 2009-10-14T13:59:40Z

Reviewing a few long-term, continuing multi-publishing projects I have been involved in recently, I am struck that several are morphing in a particular direction. The projects might have started as publishing paper or webpages, and moved to publishing high-level XML, but increasingly the commodity that needs to be packaged and distributed (for re-skinning and re-use by third parties) is the whole indexed dataset: in effect the website (without the implication of HTML pages.) The client-person doesn't GET a webpage, they get a whole website (this is for B2B not B2C.)

Rick Jelliffe Reviewing a few long-term, continuing multi-publishing projects I have been involved in recently, I am struck that several are morphing in a particular direction. The projects might have started as publishing paper or webpages, and moved to publishing high-level XML, but increasingly the commodity that needs to be packaged and distributed (for re-skinning and re-use by third parties) is the whole indexed dataset: in effect the website (without the implication of HTML pages.) The client-person doesn't GET a webpage, they get a whole website (this is for B2B not B2C.) tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38057 2009-09-30T06:02:29Z 2009-09-30T06:02:29Z

More projects seem to be coming across my desk that ultimately involve building information systems whose primary requirements come from legislation or regulations. And sometimes even the detailed requirements. Legislation is sometimes quite a nice Requirement Specification: it is expressed...

Rick Jelliffe More projects seem to be coming across my desk that ultimately involve building information systems whose primary requirements come from legislation or regulations. And sometimes even the detailed requirements. Legislation is sometimes quite a nice Requirement Specification: it is expressed... tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38056 2009-09-30T05:01:43Z 2009-09-30T05:01:43Z

I have always thought the context-senstive { a^n, b^n, c^n: n >=1} s was a kind of theoretical construct that you would never see in a real-life XML document. Today, I have actually seen one!

Rick Jelliffe I have always thought the context-senstive { a^n, b^n, c^n: n >=1} s was a kind of theoretical construct that you would never see in a real-life XML document. Today, I have actually seen one! tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38035 2009-09-28T05:27:44Z 2009-09-28T05:27:44Z

A few months ago, a client wanted to dip their toes in the semantic web. So I took a fresh look at the status quo, and where the current sweet spot is. Here are my conclusions, and how things panned out for this particular job.

Rick Jelliffe A few months ago, a client wanted to dip their toes in the semantic web. So I took a fresh look at the status quo, and where the current sweet spot is. Here are my conclusions, and how things panned out for this particular job. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38034 2009-09-28T00:53:50Z 2009-09-28T00:53:50Z

These all seem the right way to do things: a user decides what it needs for specific uses, is pragmatic or generous about timing, and doesn't exclude any of the technical eco-systems from equal participation. I think it also represents a real challenge to the software vendors: starting 2011 they will have to compete on features, quality and support, not file format: they won't have the supposed lock-in to benefit or excuse them from providing value.

Rick Jelliffe These all seem the right way to do things: a user decides what it needs for specific uses, is pragmatic or generous about timing, and doesn't exclude any of the technical eco-systems from equal participation. I think it also represents a real challenge to the software vendors: starting 2011 they will have to compete on features, quality and support, not file format: they won't have the supposed lock-in to benefit or excuse them from providing value. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.37993 2009-09-22T15:07:11Z 2009-09-22T15:07:11Z

A solid refactoring, the kind that you don't do every year, also needs to involve a tooling up, but scoped to making the new desired architecture something that programmers won't subvert but find natural. In a way, the programming languages become the interfaces that provides the boundaries for the layers of the system.

Rick Jelliffe A solid refactoring, the kind that you don't do every year, also needs to involve a tooling up, but scoped to making the new desired architecture something that programmers won't subvert but find natural. In a way, the programming languages become the interfaces that provides the boundaries for the layers of the system. tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.37983 2009-09-21T03:37:53Z 2009-09-21T03:37:53Z

It will be interesting to see how big a widget can get: can it be a full word processor? And what makes widget so different from applets?

Rick Jelliffe It will be interesting to see how big a widget can get: can it be a full word processor? And what makes widget so different from applets? tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.37962 2009-09-17T05:45:37Z 2009-09-17T05:45:37Z

For some markets the success/domination by Microsoft is much stronger than blanket figures indicate.

Rick Jelliffe For some markets the success/domination by Microsoft is much stronger than blanket figures indicate.