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Balisage 2010 Silent Auction

Posted on August 1, 2010 by David Megginson

The Balisage 2010 conference runs next week in beautiful Montreal, focusing on XML and other markup technologies. I cannot make it this year, unfortunately, but I gave some help (far too little) to Sam Wilmott to organize the silent auction. … Continue reading →

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XML-in-Practice 2008: call for participation

Posted on August 26, 2008 by David Megginson

The new name for IDEAlliance’s annual XML conference is XML-in-Practice (December 8–10, Arlington, VA), and it has just released its call for participation, with proposals due by 19 September and selected papers announced by 3 October. I won’t be chairing … Continue reading →

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Google analytics for XML 2007

Posted on January 21, 2008 by David Megginson

I forgot that I’d enabled Google analytics for the XML 2007 web site. Even though the conference is long over, I though it would be interesting to look and see what some of the trends were from September 2007 to … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: wrapup

Posted on December 6, 2007 by David Megginson

While I posted a lot before the XML 2007 conference, I didn’t really have time to post anything during it. This is the third time I’ve chaired a medium-sized tech conference, and while it’s busy all year, it’s insane while … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: check out the speakers

Posted on November 30, 2007 by David Megginson

I leave Ottawa tomorrow to fly down to Boston and get ready for XML 2007, which begins Monday morning. If the weather holds, I plan to head down in my own Piper Warrior, but I have a refundable airline ticket … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: personal schedule and recommendations

Posted on November 26, 2007 by David Megginson

The XML 2007 conference (Boston, 3–5 December) now supports both personal schedules and recommendations, thanks to Edd Dumbill and Expectnation. Personal schedule If you’re planning to attend the conference (and I hope you are), you can create a free account … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: thanks in advance to …

Posted on November 15, 2007 by David Megginson

(Update: I left out a lot of reviewers because of a last-minute editing keystroke gone horribly wrong — with luck, everyone’s listed now.) The speakers for XML 2007 (Boston, 3–5 December) are listed on this web page — it’s well … Continue reading →

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XML 2007: Mashups in battle

Posted on November 13, 2007 by David Megginson

I’ve recently been highlighting some of the presentations from the upcoming XML 2007 conference (Boston, 3–5 December). For the others, I’ve written a little bit about what I (and other members of the planning committee) found interesting and relevant about … Continue reading →

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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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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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