Evelyn Hubbert of Forrester Research just came out with a new report, “Low Hanging Fruit That Service Operations Teams Should Consider Now”, which details some of the IT tools that organizations can use in the short term to increase efficiency and save money. I had the chance to have lunch with Evelyn this summer and get some of her thoughts on the IT tools landscape, and boy, does she know this space well
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Phurnace Mentioned in Forrester’s Low Hanging Fruit Report
We’re thrilled with the registration for the Mark Logic Government Summit which is being held tomorrow — Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 — at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. But if you haven’t registered and you want to go, it’s not too late . If you’re still on the fence about registering and/or if you want to whet your appetite for what’s in store, please find embedded below a copy of the full program guide / agenda.
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Mark Logic Government Summit Program Guide. Last Chance to Register!
On our blog, we have been discussing the new hierarchical query functionality in Oracle Database 11g Release 2, using Recursive Suquery Factoring. Instead of using CONNECT BY and its close associates such as START WITH, PRIOR, LEVEL and more exotic comrades like SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH, CONNECT_BY_ROOT and NOCYCLE this release gave us a new, less proprietary and
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Oracle 11gR2 – alternative for CONNECT_BY_ISLEAF function for Recursive Subquery Factoring (dedicated to Anton)
(Full sized www.videos.bycenay.com) This video focuses on the how and why of some of the plugins recommended for the site. We cover not only the settings, but why to use certain plugins, what they do for you and how to get the most out of the installation. Plugins Covered In This Video * Google XML Sitemap * MBP Ping Optimizer * WP-DBManager * Automatic Blog * WP-O-Matic * Contact Form 7
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WordPress Plugin Settings : Contact Form 7, Google XML Sitemap, Automatic Blog, WP-O-Matic
Yesterday, as part of the W3C Technical Plenary day , I got the opportunity to introduce a new tool that I had been working on over the past few weeks, the W3C Cheatsheet for Web developers . This cheatsheet aims at providing in a very compact and mobile-friendly format a compilation of useful knowledge extracted from W3C specifications — at this time, CSS, HTML, SVG and XPath —, completed by summaries of guidelines developed at W3C, in particular the WCAG2 accessibility guidelines, the Mobile Web Best Practices, and a number of internationalization tips
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W3C Cheatsheet for developers
look like “soup from stone” (or nails or axe – depend from country) – php should leave our lives at all Stephen Leacock – “I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.” – http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_leacock.html 2009/11/4 William Candillon : > Hello, > > The PHP bindings are featured in an IBM developerWorks article: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ xml /library/x-zorba/index.html. > > Best regards, > > William > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Matthias Brantner > wrote: > > Hello, > > the Zorba XQuery processor (zorba-xquery.org) provides language bindings for > > PHP.
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XQuery Implementation for PHP
Altova is pleased to announce general availability version 2010 of its MissionKit XML, database, and UML tools. v2010 is our MOST WANTED release and includes over 70 new customer-requested features. Just a few of these include: * Support for WSDL 2.0 , JSON , and SysML technologies * Database schema comparison * New stylesheet design paradigm with advanced support for electronic form design * Enhanced XBRL functionality * And much more More info and screenshots are available at Download a fully functional free trial at Best regards, Liz Liz Andrews Technical Marketing Manager Altova, Inc
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[ANN] Altova announces v2010 of the MissionKit tool
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Next week’s W3C Developer Gathering will bring together some great speakers: Leslie Daigle (ISOC) on Internet Ecosystem Health Mark Davis (Unicode Consortium) on controversies around international domain names Brendan Eich (Mozilla) on “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript” Fantasai on CSS, with help and demos from the “CSS Strike Force”: Tab Atkins, David Baron, Simon Fraser, and Sylvain Galineau Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C) on community-built browser test suites.
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W3C Developer Gathering Next Week; Registration Closes Today
A fair bit of work has been done but more is always needed. I think you need to start out with very clear objectives, especially in the following areas: * are you going to try and measure how well the products handle something close to a “real-life” workload (including factors such as updating, database loading, etc), or are you going to measure a small number of synthetic queries? * are you going to make strenuous efforts to get the best possible performance out of each product that you test, or are you simply going to measure what it achieves “out of the box”
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Benchmarking on XQuery Implementation in DBMS
I’m very happy to report that IDC has named Mark Logic “an innovation information access company under $100M to watch.” IDC’s press release is here and a copy of the ($3500 a la carte paid) report is here . Excerpt: New technologies are eliminating boundaries between content and data to enable pervasive access to all relevant information. Contributing to this innovation is a group of small companies with the vision and technology to have an impact on the IT marketplace.
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IDC Names Mark Logic Innovative Information Access Company to Watch
