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[WishList] Convention for Referencing Posts
I wish the Weblogging community could adopt some general convention for referencing posts on other Weblogs. Personally, I evolved a format like this: [Don Box: XML eclipses COM]. It allows me to cite source and content in a single link. I would prefer to use a standard format that we all would recognize.
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RE: "XML eclipses COM"
I was relatively blown away by [Don Box: XML eclipses COM] and, was definitely over-awed by [Dilip Kumar: The XML Family of Specifications: The Big Picture]. How naive we were when we thought XML was simple and cool!
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Couldn't Be More Easier
Sam Gentile has summarized the essentials of using the Microsoft .NET Framework's support for Enterprise Services. He makes it seem so simple.
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Python-enabled RSS Readers
Python-enabled RSS readers and parsers appear to be in abundant supply. Some include useful source code. These days, you *rarely* need to reinvent the wheel.Peerkat:EffNews RSS Reader:Mark Pilgrim's RSS Parser:Usage exampes:Pears (uses wxPython for its GUI):If you need something for Linux with Gnome, check Straw:http://www.nongnu.org/straw/In fact, for Python, just go to the Vaults of Parnassus (http://www.vex.net/~x/parnassus/) and use the search box ("RSS," "RDF," "aggregator," etc.).Then, of course, there is the ubiquitous:You can easily find free source code for C#, Java, and other languages, as well. -
[Tools] FxCop: New Version 1.21 Available
The new FxCop version is up at the FxCop Team site at GotDotNet.com, including versions for both the 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the .NET Framework.
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Reflector Reflections
The latest version of Lutz Roeder's Reflector for .NET absolutely rocks! The disassembler, decompiler, "outline" feature, and "drag and drop", among other things, make Reflector one of my absolutely essential .NET tools. Five stars to Lutz!
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Multicentrix: An Enterprise Information Framework
I am exploring a new enterprise information management tool, Multicentrix, which is conceived by one of its designers as "a multidimensional virtual mindmap represented by lists and XML documents." It is an interesting approach and worth examining. In a previous incarnation, Multicentrix was known as InfoMap but has evolved substantially from that point of origin. Multicentric Technology Sdn Bhd, the company responsibile for Multicentrix, has kindly made its product available to members of the Minciu Sodas Laboratory, which is "an open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers."
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Protege-2000
I want to put in a plug for all of the hard work being done on Protege, an Open Source ontology editor and knowledge-base editor. The Protege Website also has a great list of example ontologies and other useful references related to Ontologies and the Semantic Web.