Whenever I demo Update Controls for WPF, Silverlight, or Windows Forms, I usually get the question “What about the web?” My answer has always been that Update Controls doesn’t work on the web because the user interface (in the browser) is far removed from the data model (on the server).

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Knockout.js: Update Controls for JavaScript

Training Lessons Learned: Interactivity (Selena Marie Deckelmann) — again I see parallels between how the best school teachers work and the best trainers. I was working with a group of people with diverse IT backgrounds, and often, I asked individuals to try to explain in their own words various terms (like “transaction”). This helped engage the students in a..

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Four short links: 8 October 2010

I think if I were writing a library for a vocabulary where schema validation is the norm (like FpML , say), and assuming that the schema is suitable for use in XQuery (most element names either global or having a named complex type) then I would declare the functions with types that assume the data is pre-validated. I wouldn’t expect client code to be invoking validate{} explicitly – I would expect that most of the time, the function is called to operate directly on input data, which is validated at source outside the query. (But that might not be how Zorba works, I don’t know.) The main reason is that it’s a good idea in an interface definition to be as precise as possible about what you expect to cross the interface

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Schema Typed Parameters and Return Values in Library
Modules

The XML encoding detection routine is a nice single page size for comparing programming language capabilities related to simple scanning. Here are a few. Scala Python Java C++ search function definition for xmlSwitchInputEncodingInt PHP…

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The XML Character Encoding Detection Routine in Different Programming Languages

As part of a series of interviews with W3C Members to learn more about their support for standards and participation in W3C, I ‘m talking to Paul Cotton from Microsoft and co-Chair of the W3C HTML Working Group. First, let me thank you personally on becoming a co-chair of the W3C HTML Working Group

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Interview: Paul Cotton on Microsoft Participation in the W3C HTML Working Group

A few days ago W3C opened a new wiki on Semantic Web Standards : … It is not the goal of this wiki to supersede other community wikis […] instead it is to provide a “first stop” for more information on Semantic Web technologies, in particular on Semantic Web Standards published by the W3C. Communities around such standards are also welcome to use the Wiki for their purpose The new wiki makes use of Semantic Media Wiki (and thanks to Denny Vrandecic to have helped in setting up things). A good example is the way Semantic Web tools are handled (the structure was greatly inspired by a similar collection on the SemanticWeb.org site).

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SWSWiki

Hello David, gradually I start to get a feeling for your perspective. Pulling “an efficient mechanism for interconnecting them” into focus you move across the boundaries of the XQuery spec’s field of vision. Your criticism that design is not only function and module design gains power.

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Tool development: by Perl-wrapped XQuery

Wil Shipley writes about the compromised perfection we must strive for in order to provide users an experience that meets their human expectations: “Classic computer programming has largely failed, because it failed to copy nature. Nothing in nature works 100% of the time, but it sure works well MOST of the time – and when it fails, well, you die and get replaced. A human being, for instance, is an absolutely amazing machine, and is provably NOT provably correct.” I particularly like the example in the second half, having to do with smartly interpreting a typed ISBN numbers for product search.

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User Friendly Heuristics

newbie here.  Created a WordPress.org blog but I’m totally lost with RSS with WordPress.  Shouldn’t I be able to take my RSS feed URL and post it at Feedage.com and FeedAgg.com like I would with a Squidoo lens/RSS? What is the best programming language for a beginner to learn? So I just decided to get into this whole blogging for money world after watching Garry Conn’s video about niche blogging.

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What’s a good resource to learn how to use/setup RSS with WordPress?

Brent Simmons writes on the Anatomy Of A Feature , using his recent work in NetNewsWire to add support for the popular Instapaper service: It’s tempting to think that adding a feature like this is just about adding the functionality — but there’s a bunch more to it than that. Here you see the gory, deliberate details that a responsible developer must consider when adding even what seems like an incredibly “easy feature.” Without a doubt, the part of my job that slows me down the most is exactly this kind of consideration

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Easy Features