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Abstraction and Detail
Abstraction and Detail (SOURCE:Daniel Berlinger's Archipelago)-Nice!
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Put Abstractions in Code, Details in Metadata
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Solar eclipse
I'm probably the last to realize that the obvious relation between the words 'Eclipse' and 'Sun' becomes interesting when you apply it to this Eclipse and this Sun.
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More rants about Object Oriented Data Modeling
I found more interesting discussions about data modeling in the home page of Wilshire Meta-Data Conference. I did not know about that conference, but they have most 'data modeling gurus' as speakers.
In an interview to William G. Smith, he says:
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Objects & Databases
I've been reading Practical Issues in Database Management by Fabian Pascal.
The book gives you what it promises, focusing on some common issues when working with relational databases.
If you read his articles, you'll see that he is a strong supporter of the relational theory, and dismisses every other data modeling technique.
Even if his points of view are quite radical, I liked his explanation on why and when you want to store objects in a database.
His point is that a type is defined by some data and some operations you can apply to it. Sometimes, the data and the operations are quite stable and cross-domain. The operations that an application needs to do with it are similar to the ones that another application needs. A 'Point' type is in that category. You can store this kind of type as an object.
Other types, as a 'Customer' or an 'Order' are not agreed neither in its structure nor in the operations you want to perform on them. Both structure and operations usually change during the lifetime of an application. So you need to represent them in a way that you can easily change the structure and perform any operation with it. You cannot store these types as an object. You should take advantage of the excellent support in relational databases for changing the structure or operating with data.
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Excel 11
With Excel 11 you can bind an XSD to sections of a worksheet and then get the XML for it.
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Wikis
We are about 120 people in our company, and we wanted to see what happened if we installed a Wiki ‘on the wild’. So, we installed OpenWiki about 45 days ago. Our idea was not to solve a specific problem, but just to check if a Wiki could help us to improve the way we work.
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Word 11
I’ve seen a really impressive demo of Word 11.
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DeKlarit and eWeek Excellence Awards
DeKlarit was nominated as a finalist for the eWeek Excellence Awards.
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InfoPath
I really liked the product and the concept. It is a 1.0 version so you should look at it as the beginning of something.
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RSS feed for FogBugZ
RSS feed for FogBugZ
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Axis Plugin for Eclipse
This plugin was developed to provide a quick way to import Axis Java SOAP stubs into a Eclipse project. I just needed it for the DeKlarit demo I did in WebServices DevCon East, so don't expect new improvements for this tool. I submitted it to axis-dev@xml.apache.org, so perhaps it's included in the Axis codebase sometime.
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Moving from Radio
I switched.