In the past several years, browser vendors have made great strides in supporting client-side XSLT, and adoption rates for compatable browsers is now extremely high. So how come we’re not seeing greater adoption with developers? The vendors have very much adopted it — Sun, Microsoft, Novell, Mozilla, etc. I’ve played with XSLT/XML on and off [...]
I recently read about the “Day Against DRM 2006″ and figured that I should comment on the subject as a recent and happy first-time purchaser of crippled media from iTunes. I should note that I am NOT a proponent of DRM. I worked in the relatively early days of DVD-on-Linux efforts to port OMS to [...]
So apparently the latest thing is a return to the old – Lisp hosting. Now, granted, it isn’t immensely popular like RubyOnRails, but the Lisp community seems to be rapidly coming into “the now” with web frameworks and other great things. Now, we’ve never had a thing *against* lisp, we just never advertised for it. [...]
Yesterday, VMware Server beta1 was released for free (as in beer). Now, last year I ended up buying VMware Workstation because I thought it would be cheaper than buying a server — but that product didn’t quite fill my personal needs — I wanted an always on solution. I ended up buying a server from [...]
So the latest news regarding the NSA domestic spying leak is that there is now an investigation into who leaked this information. While I’m sure that the following statements won’t help me if I ever decide to appy for security clearance, I do hope that anyone reading reviews the constitution and the history of this [...]
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