Friday, February 8, 2002

Cocoa Mozilla Just dug up this very cool screenshot of a native Cocoa version of Mozilla. No downloads yet, and looks really minimaliztic at the moment but could be an interesting project. 5:56:01 PM     Xindice List Archives I've added links to all the mailing list archives that might be of interest to Xindice users. These are now listed on the Xindice documentation page. 5:15:04 PM     Tim Bray's Revised XML Tim Bray has posted an experiment in revising XML. No DTDs, no entities, included namespaces, infoset description and XML base. Oh yeah, no notations either. What a beautiful thing. Just wish the W3C had the guts to sanction a change like this. DTDs and entities should have never been part of the core XML spec. 2:13:58 PM     No more Circuit City Apple, Circuit City 'go their separate ways' [MacCentral] I'm not a fan of Circuit City, but it's definitely not a good thing to lose them as an Applw outlet. Sure they were even worse about promoting Apple products then Comp USA, at least they were visible. 1:23:16 PM     From high-tech to blue collar. In the boom days, they were telecommunications workers, marketing gurus, CEOs. Now they're fertilizing lawns and foaming lattes. Welcome to the world of the laid-off techie. [CNET News.com] Well this is a depressing read if there ever was one. 7:13:53 AM     More Cox After spending six hours uploading the Xindice zip file, turns out the first person who downloaded it noticed it was only 65K in size. So it took six hours, said it completed and still corrupted the file. Fortunately it only took 30 minutes to upload it again, not exactly blistering speed, but a lot better then the last time and it looks like it actually worked too. Very frustrating. 6:59:59 AM     Xindice 1.0rc1 After way too many delays, I finally posted downloads for Xindice 1.0rc1. This is a quiet release right now as we're still waiting for space on the Apache servers, but I'm thrilled to finally have something out under the Xindice name. Hopefully we'll get setup properly in the next few days so that we can properly announce things. 6:37:31 AM     Cox Man the new Cox network service has issues. I was just uploading the 1.0rc1 build of Xindice and the tar.gz file went up in about 2 minutes but half way through the zip upload it stalled. And stalled and stalled and stalled some more. The network wasn't down though, it just took SIX hours to upload a 6MB file. Less then 300 bytes per second, unbelievable! When I heard we were switching I told Patty, Cox will have no idea how to run a network. Well, they sure don't. Since switching from @home we've had slowdown after slowdown, very disappointing. Hopefully they'll learn quick. 3:31:53 AM

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Resume:

Software:

Xindice (Formally dbXML)

Xindice XML-RPC Interface

Xindice HTTP Interface

XML:DB API Reference Implementation

Jive XML Database Port

FreeDB CD Database to XML Data Generator

Writing:

Introduction to Native XML Databases (xml.com)

Introduction to dbXML (xml.com)

An Introduction to the XML:DB API (xml.com)

Xindice Users Guide

Xindice Developers Guide

Xindice Administrators Guide

XML:DB API Specification

XML:DB API Use Cases

XUpdate Use Cases

ICEPick Peer to Peer Personalization

Presentations:

Native XML Databases Why Bother?
(HTML) (Powerpoint)