We are very excited to announce the Sausalito XQuery Application Contest 2010. With this contest, we are looking for the best web application which has a significant part developed in XQuery with Sausalito. The contestant with the best application wins $7,500
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[ANN] Sausalito XQuery Application Contest (win $7,
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I wrote a post last week sharing my first impressions of Foursquare , the much-hyped new Internet service that combines geolocation with social networking and elements of gaming. Just as Facebook introduced core new concepts of “friends” and “status updates,” there is one core new concept in Foursquare: “checking in.” When you arrive somewhere, you check-in to the location, announce to your Foursquare friends that you are there, and can optionally send a check-in announcement to your Facebook status feed. Checking in is a useful concept. A GPS can’t tell if you are in the Tanuki Tavern on the ground floor of the Ganesvoort Hotel or the Plunge bar on top. (To my knowledge, GPSs don’t do altitude.) Nor, with 6 or so meter precision, can a GPS nail whether you are in The Brick Lane Curry House , Zerza, or Taj, all tucked tightly in a row on East 6th Street.
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Foursquare, Location Broadcasting, and Trust
I’ve heard so much hype about Foursquare that I had to give it a try, so I downloaded the Blackberry App and have been playing it with for a few days. Here are my quick initial impressions: I give them an A+ for what I call “minimal implementation of core concept.” Lots of startups have a core concept that needs rounding-out over time and they get confused about out how much core vs. how much rounding-out they should do in the first release. I believe that for breakthrough products/services your first release should be all core, little round-out. Foursquare implements this philosophy well: this is about friends and their locations, period. The app can’t even help you edit your profile picture (e.g., mine got all distorted), so I had to edit it myself on my PC and then re-upload it. But that’s perfect. Having a nice picture upload, crop, and edit function is precisely what you don’t want a location-based services startup focusing on.
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Quick Take on Foursquare
The year is 2010, sorry about that. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM, William Candillon wrote: > Hi XQuery lovers 
> > The first London XQuery Meetup will be held in Theodore Bullfrog, > London, July 15th 2010. > More details at http://xquery.pbworks.com/London-Meetup.
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Re: First XQuery Meetup London: July 15th 2008
Here is a thought experiment, which is a model of OOXML and its dialects. I could have chosen ODF or HTML. When we talk about OOXML sometimes we mean one if its formal specifications, sometimes we mean a particular package format, sometimes we mean what an application can generate or consume
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A Sketch on Modeling Dialects of XML File Formats
Hi Greg, How about declaratively building a two-dimensional boolean table (one value for each document and each find entry) and then filter those lines that only have true values? For example, it could look like the following query, provided $searchDocs and $find are defined (it can probably be simplified further): let $booleans := { for $doc at $d in $searchDocs return { for $f in $find return {count($doc/ent[@type = $f/@type]) > = $f/@count} } } for $d in 1 to count($searchDocs) where every $b in $booleans/document[@id=$d]/value satisfies xs:boolean($b) return $searchDocs[$d] Kind regards, Ghislain
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I spent an hour or so browsing the QlikTech S-1 and thought I’d share some observations. (See here for my prior post on the company.) The company has achieved good scale (2009 revenues of $157M) but growth has been decelerating from 82% in 2007 to 47% in 2008 to 33% in 2009. Gross margins are high at 89% due largely to normal margins on license (96%), unusually high margins on support (96%), normal margins on consulting (27%), and a fairly small consulting business (10% of total revenues) which reduces the pull-down effect on the weighted average. Wall Street will like this
The W3C ‘s XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.0.2 of the XQuery and XPath Full Text Test Suite (XQFTTS) at http://dev.w3.org/2007/xpath-full-text-10-test-suite/ The tests suite contains information about how to run the test suite and how to submit the results (anonymously, if you desire). XQFTTS 1.0.2 fixes two small bugs reported against XQFTTS 1.0.1.
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[ANN] XQuery and XPath Full Text Test Suite version
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At 2010-04-07 17:29 +0100, Adam Retter wrote: > > Come to think of it, it would make sense to give library modules > a different > > extension since they aren’t directly useable as a query. That way looking > > in a directory I would know “.xq” could be used directly but > “.xql” couldn’t > > be used directly because it doesn’t include a query, only declarations.
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[Newbie] What are the filename suffixes for
XQuery files? For XQuery Update files?
Just a short note that the early-bird date for discounted registration for the upcoming North America west-coast XSLT / XQuery training is now April 12, 2010. The training is at the Mark Logic headquarters in San Carlos, CA April 26-30, 2010, the week before the developer conference: West-coast North America: April 26-30, 2010 – San Francisco area http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#Crane201004MLC East-coast North America: May 10-14, 2010 – Ottawa, Canada http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#Crane201005YOW Europe: June 7-11, 2010 – Trondheim, Norway http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/index.html#Crane201006TRD Thanks! Have a happy Easter! . .
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