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  • Package Repository in eXist XML Database

    Over the past few weeks I have created and committed to eXist /trunk a new core extension for the eXist XML database which provides developers with the ability to manage external packages/dependencies.

    If you have worked with other package management systems, like:

    • rpm
    • aptitude / apt get / dpkg / yum
    • CPAN Perl modules / PAR
    • Python eggs
    • Ruby gems
    • PHP Pear

    then you should understand the goal of package management within eXist, e.g. make it easy for developers to create and distribute reusable components. This has been a percolating topic for the past year in the XML world and, in my opinion, can't come soon enough. Florent Georges is spearheading the charge here and I thank him for his work on EXPath, as well as his continuing contribution to eXist.

  • XML, UML and the Zen of Data Modeling

    Editor Note: This was originally from May 28, 2010

     I've been rather conspicuous of late in the absence from my own site. I can cite moving cross country, starting a new job with a contractor working with a major US archival agency, house hunting, and the stresses related from all of these in that absence, but as things slowly begin to settle down here, I'm hoping to get back to writing regularly for XMLToday.org and elsewhere.

    Shortly after starting (within an hour of arriving at my new workplace, in fact), I was handed a dozen or so schemas, generated from UML documents, that were being used to drive an application for the client, and told that my job was to manage them. Over the course of the last two months, this task has turned into a fairly deep, soul searching experience about what exactly we mean by data modeling, and has left scars that will likely take years to heal.

  • A Tale of Two Webs

    Editor Note: This was first publishing Nov. 23, 2009.

    And no. I'm not going to start out with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". But I will tell you what kind of time it was.

    It was a big damn Gold Rush.

    As gold rushes tend to do, it made a mess of a lot of things; some got rich and most didn't, and those who were already wealthy figured out how to take advantage of the situation. And there's one other major thing that gold rushes do: they tend to tilt balances.