Xaware.org looks prett slick.  I’m in a session with one of the xaware guys going through the process of using xaware.
OK – we had a long intro, but are finally seeing some screenshots, which look useful.  Xaware will bring value to scenarios with many complex XML documents.  The fewer or less complex your XML files [...]

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As of this writing, I’m having a devil of a time getting Grails (0.6 and 1.0-RC1 SNAPSHOT) to interact with the Amazon web services, uhh, service.  After messing around trying to use the GroovySOAP stuff, which I couldn’t get to work (maybe I’ll go back to that?) I found the Amazon Web Services library for [...]

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for the social web to evolve to the next level.  Is that at all controversial?  I hope at least the title is, as I’d like to provoke a bit of thought in you, the reader, about the topic of DRM.
I’ve been mulling this and related topics for some time, but not quite in these words.  [...]

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I’ve been digging more in to groovy and grails lately – done more than toe-dipping but nothing I want to shout about yet.  The more I tested the collections and looping – syntax like doc.entry.findAllBy() stuff – I remembered linq (or is it LINQ?).  This is data access technology that will be central to Microsoft’s [...]

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I’ve written here before about the pain that is migrating PHP4 apps which use DOMXML to PHP5.  I found a wrapper system, just today, at http://alexandre.alapetite.net/doc-alex/domxml-php4-php5/.  I know I’ve looked for this sort of thing before, and I’m not sure why I didn’t find it earlier, but it’s just made a tedious task take about [...]

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Friend Joe Stump recently (as in today, I think) launched correlate.us, a feed aggregator which brings together your personal feeds from delicious, twitter, flickr and digg.  I believe more feed streams will be forthcoming, but for now it’s hitting some of the larger players.  In a nutshell, it’s a way to see not only tagged [...]

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I’ve not seen any signs we’re quite there yet, though searching for “ical/ics” and “rss enclosure” does bring up some interesting ideas. In short, what I am hoping to see is something like the following:
When I’m authoring a blog entry, I can add specific event information (date/time/location/etc) which gets added to the RSS feed [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write about simplepie.org for awhile, but haven’t got around to it (mentioned in my podcast, thought).  If you’re using PHP to do RSS parsing, use simplepie.  It’s that easy of a decision to make right now.  I did find a dissenting voice, claiming that simplepie was way slower than magpie – [...]

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I’m not sure there’s much more to say about this, except that it sums up much of my own observations about how SOAP has evolved over the years.  The “S” really did stand for “Simple” at one point, but AFAICT, since the 1.2 spec, SOAP is not officially an acronym for anything any more.

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I’m not sure there’s much more to say about this, except that it sums up much of my own observations about how SOAP has evolved over the years.  The “S” really did stand for “Simple” at one point, but AFAICT, since the 1.2 spec, SOAP is not officially an acronym for anything any more.

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