Author Archives: David Megginson

XML 2007: XML at the Beeb

Posted on November 8, 2007 by David Megginson

The track at XML 2007 (Boston, 3–5 December) that I often refer to simply as the “Document track” is actually called “Documents and Publishing.” That’s an important distinction, because publishing — even using a text-y format like XML — doesn’t … Continue reading →

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First looks at OpenSocial: part 4 (content for persistence data)

Posted on November 8, 2007 by David Megginson

Earlier postings: First looks at OpenSocial: part 1 (URLs) First looks at OpenSocial: part 2 (content for members and friends) First looks at OpenSocial: part 3 (content for activities) I didn’t have time to look at the OpenSocial API yesterday, … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: Web service vulnerabilities

Posted on November 6, 2007 by David Megginson

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, for the XML 2007 conference this year (Boston, 3–5 December) the number of submissions on WS-* topics was way down, while topics like REST, microformats, and mashups are starting to sneak their way … Continue reading →

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First looks at OpenSocial: part 3 (content for activities)

Posted on November 6, 2007 by David Megginson

Earlier postings: First looks at OpenSocial: part 1 (URLs) First looks at OpenSocial: part 2 (content for members and friends) This is the third part of a series where I’m working through the OpenSocial specs as I write — that … Continue reading →

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First looks at OpenSocial: part 2 (content for members and friends)

Posted on November 5, 2007 by David Megginson

See also First looks at OpenSocial: part 1 (URLs) This is the second part of a series of postings describing how I’m trying to understand the technical specs for the new Google-led OpenSocial initiative. In the first part, I cut … Continue reading →

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First looks at OpenSocial: part 1 (URLs)

Posted on November 3, 2007 by David Megginson

In a year or two, we’ll know whether the Google-lead OpenSocial initiative was a turning point in the social web or just a weak shot fired across Facebook’s bow. In the meantime, I think it’s worth taking some time to … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: XML Hardware

Posted on November 2, 2007 by David Megginson

What kinds of problems in XML can be solved using hardware acceleration? Personally, I don’t think that (software-based) XML parsing is usually a bottleneck in typical applications, but it might be for networking applications that deal with huge volumes of … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: XForms evening

Posted on October 12, 2007 by David Megginson

In addition to the main conference programme, we’re offering two special evening events at XML 2007 (Boston, 3–5 December): an XForms evening on Monday evening, and Standards and Specs lightning rounds on Tuesday evening. Each of these is a mini … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: does XML have a future on the web?

Posted on October 10, 2007 by David Megginson

Instead of a single keynote speaker at the beginning of the XML 2007 conference (Boston, 3-5 December), we’ve decided to start at 9:00 am on Monday 3 December with an open discussion on the topic Does XML have a future … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: Standards and specs lightning rounds

Posted on September 28, 2007 by David Megginson

Are you involved in developing and promoting a public standard or (widely-used) specification that has to do with structured markup? Call for participation I’m happy to announce that the Call for proposals for the XML 2007 lightning rounds is open … Continue reading →

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