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  • On Intelligent File Systems, XQuery and the Cloud

    Cloud computing has largely passed through it's hype phase - that period where all kinds of magical characteristics are applied to it because no one really knows that much about it, and is shifting to the real world scenarios where people are actually building clouds and finding the limitations therein (and the cycle goes through the Trough of Despair).

    Despite this incipient skeptical phase, there are some significant reasons to think hard about the combination of cloud computing and XML Databases, especially those such as MarkLogic or eXist-db that combine the database with a web app server. There are many ways of using such servers, though I believe one of the most powerful is to use a RESTful Services approach in conjunction with URL rewriting in order to create intelligent file systems.

  • O’Reilly Previews HTML 5 Reference for the iPhone/iPad

    As yet another indication that publishing is shifting to the eBook world, O'Reilly Media is in the process of putting together a version of their popular HTML 5/XHTML Reference book specifically for Apple's iPhone/iPad. It will also work with Google's Android operating system, though the beta is still a little buggy there. Pay attention on what kind of hit count they get from these mobile devices.

    Computer reference books actually make remarkably good fodder for mobile hand-helds as eBooks; they are generally structured as discrete topics rather than continuous narratives, and if you're coding on a laptop or desktop and need to look up an API call or how a particular tag is utilized, having your iPhone, Android or Kindle sitting as a quick finger stroke reference could prove very useful. For more information, check out their beta site at http://htmlref.labs.oreilly.com/.

  • Thoughts on Client side XQuery and Android

    To a certain extent, I think those people that are looking to get XQuery into the browser are tilting at windmills, and frankly are wasting their time. It's not that I don't see advantages to having browsers be XQuery aware - far from it. The ability to both manipulate the DOM and to manipulate external data resources using XQuery would dramatically simplify a lot of the code written in JavaScript. The problem is that the JavaScript does exist, is in wide usage, and I see a language like Python or Ruby making its way into the browser before I see XQuery doing so. Building a JavaScript-based Xquery system is probably the cleanest approach to getting that support, but even that's probably a fool's errand.