Any type of business or individual who works with XML software will already know that this is a data-driven application which requires certain XML productivity tools. Productivity tools for XML are needed for enabling the entire …
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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
I had lunch last week with a senior executive at a major software vendor. I asked him how one of my former (non-MarkLogic) colleagues was doing. His reply: “Not so well. Expectations were set very high because of his past experience and in the end he didn’t hire strong direct reports and build a strong organization. Worse yet, when he was challenged on the quality of those people, instead of accepting that there may have been problems, he defended them. And defending weak people is the beginning of the death cycle .” The last sentence caught my attention because it’s a key decision that every manager must make. When your management comes to you and says “your people are weak,” I think you are faced with two choices. Say “no they are not” and defend them. Say “perhaps they are” and upgrade them
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Defending Weak People
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
Observe the difference between these two requirements: When the user closes the lid, the laptop goes to sleep. Versus When the lid is closed, the laptop is asleep. It is the same as the difference between these two implementations: public class LaptopPowerManagerEventDriven { private bool _sleeping = false ; public LaptopPowerManagerEventDriven( LaptopLid lid) { lid.Closed += () => _sleeping = true ; lid.Opened += () => _sleeping = false ; } public bool Sleeping { get { return _sleeping; } } } Versus public class LaptopPowerManagerDependencyDriven { private LaptopLid _lid; public LaptopPowerManagerDependencyDriven( LaptopLid lid) { _lid = lid; } public bool IsSleeping { get { return _lid.IsClosed; } } } I don’t have any inside information regarding how OS X or Windows implement power management, but I can guess which one uses which approach
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The meaning of “when”
(Revised 10/12/10) In a surprising move, HP announced that it has appointed former SAP executive Léo Apotheker as CEO. In addition, HP has appointed former Oracle executive and Kleiner Perkins partner Ray Lane to its board of directors and named him to the position of non-executive chairman.
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HP Names Former SAP Executive Léo Apotheker as CEO
Recently I have seen some Schematron schemas written by good XSLT programmers which basically represented all assertion tests as custom XSLT2 functions. (Schematron allows this.) The schemas were successful, in that they functioned as desired, but I don’t think there…
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Do you need to make your own XSLT2 function definitions when using Schematron?
In this excerpt from MongoDB: The Definitive Guide we offer a step by step guide on how to install MongoDB and get it up and running smoothly. Precompiled binaries are available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and Solaris. On most platforms you can download the archive from mongodb.org , inflate it, and run the binary.
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How to Install MongoDB
A reader sent me to this post about the “Palantir party wagon” which had been taken down before I could see it. However, thanks to the magic of the Google cache, I found the text here , some of which I’ve embedded below. Palantir Party Wagon Might Be Taking A Break Big money is spent here, which help pay for elaborate parties and groovy soundtracks for demo videos
Microsoft has released a patch for faster Visual Studio 2010 performance on Windows XP, Vista & 2003 platforms. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981741…( read more )
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VS 2010 Software Update for Improved Performance on Vista, Win 2003 & XP
