I’m here at the WG4 meeting in Prague this week, working on IS29500 maintenance with the other members.  I’ll be posting about the week’s activity after we’re done and I have some time, but for now I wanted to cover a few blog posts I’ve found interesting in the last few days … I only showed up here Monday evening, but some people were around during the XML Prague conference over the weekend.  Alex Brown has blogged about Day 1 and Day 2 of that event, as well as the SC34 WG1 meeting on Monday.

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Links for 03-25-2009

It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted, and I’ve come across several interesting blog posts and articles in that time.  Here are a few favorites … There’s some cool new content that has started appearing on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site.  First was the OOXML Crawler , an application that crawls all the documents at a URL (a web site or SharePoint library, say) and retrieves all of the metadata properties from those documents.  And this week there’s a cool article on how to use XSLT to transform raw XML data into a DOCX .  The XML source data used in the example is based on HL7, the emerging standard for medical records.  Both articles include complete source code, of course. Speaking of HL7, Altova’s MapForce product now supports the standard, and Alexander Falk has a blog post about how out works entitled Electronic health records, HL7, and XML data mapping .  Additional information about how to use MapForce with HL7 can be found over on the Altova blog as well

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Miscellaneous links for 03/18/2009

Back at the beginning of the company, we here at Phurnace made some pretty basic decisions that have shaped and defined what it is we do and how we go about doing it. At heart, Phurnace’s products get our customers out of the business of being middleware experts (WebSphere, WebLogic, Jboss, WebSphere Portal, Tomcat, etc.) and let’s them focus on THEIR apps, not the apps running their apps

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know (About Integration) I Learned in Kindergarten

Brent Simmons makes some great points in his essay on the role of zealots in the software industry. I especially relate to his observation that zeal, or the mere impression of it, can repel somebody from what might otherwise be an attractive technology. In particular, Brent confesses that before he could even try the popular git source control management tool, he had to overcome his resistance to joining rank with some of the cult-like followers of Linus Torvalds , the famous developer of git who also created the world-changing Linux operating system

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Zealotry For Good And Evil

On the previous post in this blog using Indonesian language, we tried to use property file to access database in order to avoid hardcode mechanism, and the accessing of the property file by using a class named ConfigProperties, now we will try to access property file without using those class but we will try to use Spring Framework to access property file . As we knew, the existence of Spring Framework on Java technology is really-really help us the Java Developer, the modularity of this framework has made the enterprise java project development is easier to rebuild or modify. We will not discuss much more about the Spring Framework here, we only will try to use the Spring Framework one of this framework feature to access property file.

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Accessing Property File Using Spring Framework

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A letter to customers using Rogue Wave ® Stingray ® products Patrick Leonard, VP Product Strategy & Marketing As part of our ongoing commitment to the Stingray product, Rogue Wave Software is adding significant new functionality in 2009 and beyond. Recently, Microsoft has made significant enhancements to the MFC libraries with the release of the MFC Feature Pack, and much of our effort will be addition of support for the MFC Feature Pack.  In addition, we are adding new support for other MFC components as well as features of Windows, Office and .NET.

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Coming Stingray enhancements – 2009 product roadmap

I recently participated in a webinar with Ken Rubin from HP (formerly EDS) who is the Chief Architect for their Healthcare practice.  The webinar was sponsored by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) .  You can access it on demand by registering here . The topic was about the need to standardize, and the benefits of standardizing, software services.  There are many IT standards in healthcare and other industries around document structures, data payloads and information sematics.  Yet, there has been marginal progress on standardizing the functional behaviors or architectures which are needed to create, manage and manipulate that data

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Standardizing Software Services

Seems that there’s a lot of talk in the blogsphere and around the water cooler now a days about application virtualization being the next step in the abstraction revolution taking over the data center. Whether to current infrastructure, virtual images, or now out to the cloud, companies are really starting to wrap their heads around the important differences between the data center centric perspective of days past and the application centric view point inching into strategic conversations.

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Application Virtualization – Third Verse, Same as the First

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