Archive for May, 2003

This is the second conference call in a row for an unnamed national project that I almost walked out of. Can't get a word in edge-wise, and when asked a direct question, am cut off before I can respond. Complete and utter waste of time. Why are people such asses in these things? If... »

We've been working with some interested groups, in order to get CAREO "out there," and I'm just trying to get a better handle on what our potential end-user institutions need from a repository server. UPDATE: Please provide feedback on this, even (especially?) if you agree with the assumptions. Clarity is a Good Thing. Here's the assumptions... »

I was just tweaking the "Add Object" page for the MedCIS installation of CAREO, when I noticed that the funky cross-browser-window communication used to update the location of the uploaded file in the IMS Metadata record was failing. Safari didn't help, it just borked silently. I fired up Mozilla Firebird, and it did the... »

After a little while spent spinning wheels, we've gotten the MedCIS integration of CAREO back on track. It turns out that it may have been a minor config oops, where CAREO was directed to use a URL that may have had intermittent (or otherwise badly behaving) DNS, so the XML-RPC requests were barfing all over... »

I just found out that I'll be heading to WWDC2003 this year (June 23 - 27). This is the most amazing conference I've seen, with an extremely diverse mix of folks (from MS R&D to indy developers). The sessions are all top-knotch, and it's more than a little like drinking from a firehose. Can't... »

I'm just going through some presentations on EOF, so I can help King with some work he's doing on implementing a native XML database in CAREO. A one-liner at the end of a WWDC2000 presentation on Advanced EOF says it all. "Work with EOF, not against it." Thanks to Eric Noyau and Josh Fagans... »

I've update the installation instructions for CAREO and the ALOHA Metadata Server. I've also included the updated docs in the downloadable installation package. »

I was emailed a virus over the weekend, and didn't even know it was malicious. It was rendered harmless by the Perfect Virus Killing Machine. I run MacOSX. Windows virii are ineffective. I've never had a virus infect any of my macs. Ever. Sure, I've received copies of Windows virii, which I dutifully... »

The latest version of the LC website just went live. Mostly a restructuring of content, so it’s easier to find stuff without having to decipher which section it might be in. This is using more CSS to handle the layout (at least for the navigation portion), so we’ll see how the old, crappy Netscape... »

I'm playing around with XQuery, and am finding it to be quite powerful. Still getting my head around the FLWR syntax, and what I can do with that, but initial pokings are quite promising. Thanks a LOT to Leif and Jim at Bluestream for guiding me through the first steps. Their XStreamDB is... »