Month: August 2006

  • XSLT 2.0 Support coming soon to MarcEdit 5.0

    So I’ve just about finished making the changes to MarcEdit 5.0 to include Saxon’s .NET component into the application.  This will allow users the ability to support XSLT 1.0, 2.0, XPath, Xquery, etc.  By default, the application will continue to utilize the customized version of the System.XML classes provided by default in .NET since they…

  • Saxon.NET example

    I was playing around with Saxon.NET and I like it.  Its also very well done (not suprisingly).  Benchmarking, I found that its competitive with my custom processor for XSLT 1.0 while providing 2.0 support.  I’ll be integrating this into MarcEdit, likely even this weekend, so folks can start using XSLT 2.0 in the application.  I…

  • When things go ouch

    This weekend, Kyle Banerjee and I drove down to Shasta for the Shasta Super Century.  This is a 135 mile, 16,500 ft vertical gain ride the finished with a quad-burning ride up Mt. Shasta.  This was a ride that I’d been looking forward too but apparently my body wasn’t.  About 6 miles into the first…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 uptake

    I don’t do it very often but its now been about a year since I formally posted MarcEdit 5.0 as beta and in the 12 months, the program has now been downloaded by 10, 021 unique users.  Not bad I guess.  Hopefully, when I take the program to 5.1 when the docs are completed, I’ll see less…

  • The wonderful world of skype

    So today I entered the wonderful world of skype.  Love it.  If anyone has a desire to chat and use skype, my skype name is reese_terry. –TR

  • Learning Systems Management Patent

    I’m not sure how I missed this, but apparently the US Patent office, in their infininte wisdom, granted Blackboard a paton on “Internet-based education support system and methods”.    Michael Feldstein on the e-Literate blog notes that: As I read it, Blackboard basically owns the patent on any sort of groupware at all that is used…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 updates

    I’ve posted an update.  Some of the highlights of the change: New functions added to the MarcEngine/COM objects that allow for the streaming of text into the MARCEngine for direct translation to MARC.  Traditionally, MarcEdit has been a file based tool (i.e., you send it a file and it prints the results to a new…