This isn't a device, it's a service

"The emphasis in the industry is shifting from software/hardware as something to be owned and cherished and capitalized and depreciated to software/hardware as something to be consumed and rented and thrown out over time." --
This isn't a device, it's a service

And more changes to the blog...

I have changed over to the new blogger stuff completely now. Using the blogger widget to show the archive. Using the built-in commenting system rather than haloscan. I'm using one of the default skins unchanged (for now).

The re-direct to feedburner for the feed seems to be functioning fine.

Hopefully, I can leave everything alone now for another five years :-)

Simple API for XQuery - XQJ

As the use of XQuery explodes out there - thanks in large part to native support in "the big 3" enterprise RDBs[1] - the benefits of a standardised interface to it from programming environments becomes apparent. JSR 225.

There is a direct analogy here with SAX (Simple API for XML). Just as with SAX, I predict implementations of JSR-225-ish APIs in other languages. Unfortunately from a meme propagation perspective, XQJ bakes Java into the TLA. This nearly happened to SAX ten years ago. Yes, count'em. Ten years ago.

[1] Oracle 11g, DB2 Viper, SQL 2005

Changing some stuff

I have switched the feed for this blog to "full". I do wish blogspot provided two feeds :-/

I'm playing with feedburner...effect unknown.

WS-HowThingsHaveChanged

On the subject of time...WS-dammerung. Lessee...Also from 2004.

Time flies (dynamically) by

Wow. I cannot believe this summit was way back in 2004!

Where does all the time go?

"we spend an inordinate amount of time in this industry lovingly hand-crafting systems so that they have the concept of time built in to them."
Where does all the time go?