Author Archives: David Megginson

MacOS X vs. Ubuntu Linux

Posted on June 29, 2006 by David Megginson

[Update: Tim O’Reilly writes that not only Apple but Red Hat should be worried about Ubuntu.] We bought our older daughter a cheap used ThinkPad as a grade 8 graduation present, and I installed Ubuntu Linux on it for her. … Continue reading →

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XML 2006 submission deadline today (Monday 19 June)

Posted on June 19, 2006 by David Megginson

Today is the submission deadline for XML 2006 papers and tutorials. They’ve been pouring in over the weekend, and I’m very happy with the high quality of them. If you have not had a chance to submit yet, please send … Continue reading →

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XML 2006 submissions due Monday 19 June

Posted on June 15, 2006 by David Megginson

We’re getting close to the XML 2006 paper/tutorial deadline and there are a lot of good submissions. Please keep ’em coming: http://www.idealliance.org/xmlusa/06/call/ If you’re proposing a paper, all you need to provide right now is an author, title, and abstract … Continue reading →

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XML 2006 deadline approaches

Posted on June 12, 2006 by David Megginson

Next Monday (19 June) is the main paper and tutorial submission deadline for XML 2006 (Boston, 7-9 December; Tutorials 6 December). You can submit proposals for papers and tutorials through IDEAlliance’s system here: http://www.idealliance.org/xmlusa/06/call/ For more information, see the full … Continue reading →

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Gap buffers

Posted on June 7, 2006 by David Megginson

Tim Bray updated an old piece on binary search this morning — I missed it the first time around, so I was glad that it popped up in my blog reader. Tim’s taking some flak about data abstraction from people … Continue reading →

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Firefox vs. PRG

Posted on May 31, 2006 by David Megginson

[Update: it’s working now, after upgrading Ubuntu. Here’s an online test for your own browser.] Post/Redirect/Get (PRG) is a common web-application design pattern, where a server responds to an HTTP POST request not by generating HTML immediately, but by redirecting … Continue reading →

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Continuations, cont'd

Posted on May 20, 2006 by David Megginson

[Update: see further contributions to the discussion from Ian Griffiths, Avi Bryant, James Robertson, and Joe Duffy; note also John Cowan’s excellent comment below, pointing out that hidden fields work with the back button but not with bookmarks.] It looks … Continue reading →

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National Debt(s)

Posted on May 20, 2006 by David Megginson

Tony Coates is celebrating the elimination of the Australian federal government’s net debt. During the 1970s and 1980s, Canada carried a brutal public debt, to the point that our federal government was spending more on interest than on any major … Continue reading →

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Announcement: XML 2006 RSS news feed

Posted on May 17, 2006 by David Megginson

The XML 2006 conference (Boston, December 5-7) has a low-traffic RSS news feed for major announcements. In your weblog reader, subscribe to the following RSS 2.0 feed to stay up to date on deadlines, dates, and other important information: http://2006.xmlconference.org/news.xml … Continue reading →

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XML 2006 Call for Participation

Posted on May 17, 2006 by David Megginson

I’ve just come back from announcing the XML 2006 Call for Participation at the XTech 2006 conference in Amsterdam (I had the privilege of following two excellent opening keynotes, Paul Graham from Y Combinator and Jeffrey McManus from Yahoo, ensuring … Continue reading →

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