Scott Fillmer portfolio and resume review.

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The Portfolio Project

Today at the W3C Advisory Committee meeting, we discussed the document license for HTML 5. We discussed use cases from the HTML Working Group that call for a more open license than the current W3C Document License . The result of discussion among the Membership is that there is strong support for: a license that allows the reuse of excerpts in software, software documentation, test suites, and other scenarios; a license (or licenses) that are familiar to the open source community; processes that encourage innovation and experimentation about Web technology, so that work can be easily brought to W3C for standardization; making the HTML Working Group a forum that is conducive to participation by the community at large; ensuring that the HTML 5 specification remains valuable to the entire Web community (see an update from Philippe Le Hégaret on HTML that he presented to the Membership)

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Update on HTML 5 Document License

A small addition has been made on the RDFa distiller service (pyRdfa) : there is now a possibility to upload an XHTML file to be distilled, beyond referring to a URI or copying a text to a text box. This feature has been asked for by several users. Both the upload and the text box alternatives use POST, whereas distilling via URI-s uses GET

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Small add-ons to the RDFa distiller

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

On Wednesday, January 6th, 2010, Mark Logic will host a webinar where two of Mark Logic ‘s XQuery experts will respond to Oracle’s recently published white paper ( PDF ) which attacks Mark Logic and its implementation of XQuery. The webinar features: Mary Holstege, PhD. Principal Engineer at Mark Logic and member of the W3C XQuery and XML Schema working groups.

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Mark Logic Hosts Webinar to Respond to Oracle XQuery Attack

Following is the full text of a guest submission I did for the Enterpreneur Corner section of VentureBeat . Given the tumultuous events of 2009, it’s easy to forget the world didn’t come to a standstill. Life continued and Silicon Valley kept innovating.

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Eight Predictions for 2010: Guest Post for VentureBeat

In a recent article I described the interaction between JavaServer Faces (1.2) and Spring Framework (2.5.x): http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6655/spring-a-surprise-on-a-jsf-developer-how-spring-beans-can-become-jsf-managed-beans.

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Configure JDeveloper 11g to work with Spring 2.5 and AOP

It’s one way to know “we’ve arrived,” I suppose. You can now find, on the very first link under “technical information” on Oracle’s XML DB homepage a link to an Oracle-authored comparison white paper (and I use the term loosely) that compares Oracle 11g XML DB to Mark Logic Server . There’s a lot to say in response and because it’s a busy time of the year (and we don’t have 50,000 employees) it’s going to take a few weeks to publish an opposing white paper.

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Quick Thoughts on the Oracle Hatchet Job on Mark Logic

As previously covered , email archiving vendor ZL Technologies of San Jose, California sued leading IT market researcher Gartner for $132M earlier this year for its treatment in one of Gartner’s vaunted magic quadrants . On November 4th, the case was dismissed , but have no worries.

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ZL vs. Gartner: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again

A former colleague hit an old nerve the other day, sending me the following message about budgets and budgeting. Dear Dave, A question for you — I just saw a typical idiotic internal email about budgets yesterday, and to my recollection [at our last company], you tried to make the system less dysfunctional, but didn’t really make much headway, and almost earned yourself some finance team enemies [in the process]. Now that you’re CEO, do you still have those feelings about budgets, or have you now seen the other side of the coin?

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The Great Dysfunctional Corporate Budgeting Process