Terry’s Worklog

  • OSCON Day 3

    Just a note — The presentation notes have been posted for all the presentations now (at least as far as I can tell). I’ll post another post with direct links to all the sessions I attended after this one. KeyNotes The first few keynotes really weren’t that interesting (I thought) and I’ll admit that I…

  • Using XMLTextReader to improve XSLT processing

    One of the things that I spend a little too much time working on was how to setup a more streamlined version of resolving entities and ignoring entities.  The key has to do with avoiding a call to the XMLValidateNavigator object, and using the XMLTextReader gives you more granularity over the process.  Here’s an example:…

  • OSCON Presentation notes

    For those interested in seeing all the presentation notes from OSCON 2006, you can find all the sessions currently posted at: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/presentations.html For sessions that I’ve attended and written about, I’ve placed them below.  As more sessions become available, I’ll post additional links. Building Internet Applications with Mozilla XULRunner Benjamin Smedberg URL: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2006/smedberg_benjamin.odp (Open Office files) Google…

  • OSCON 2006: Day 2

    Keynotes: The Zen of Free Simon Phipps, Sun “Opening” the Possibilities: APIs and Open Source Gary Lang, AutoDesk, Inc. Ugh — As good as the first day’s keynotes were — these were not.  I was nearly ready to bag the keynotes when… 5 a day Robert “rOml” Lefkowitz, Root Markets This was a fantastic keynote. …

  • Looking for McDonald’s Lightening McQueen

    I have a bit of a request.  My boys love the Cars movie, toys, ect. and we ate at McDonalds until we were able to get the little Red Lightening McQueen car.  Well, last night, the boys left their car ourside and our puppy apparently liked the car as well, because she chewed it up. …

  • OSCON: Day 1 sessions

    Test-driven development meets design-by-contract Jim Weirich, Compuware Slides: http://www.onestepback.org/articles/TddMeetsDbc I enjoyed this session partly because I’m not a big fan of Ruby’s Unit Testing and liked the idea of a contract testing method.  The session discussed a separate testing packed called rSpec (http://rspec.rubyforge.org/).  I’ve included a link to the presentation which includes sample code on…

  • OSCON 2006 Wed. Keynotes (Tim O’Reilly)

    In the openning keynote, Tim O’Reilly presented what he calls his 5 big ideas about open source.  Some I thought were fairly interesting.  Architectures of participation beyond software development (Web 2.0) The idea here is that in this new world of Web 2.0, successful companies are looking to architectures where people build systems simply by…

  • OSCON 2006

    I’m going to be away from the office for a few days while attending the OSCON 2006 conference here in Portland, Oregon.  I’ll be periodically blogging about the sessions throughout the conference — so stay tuned.  BTW, if anyone is here at OSCON, give me a hollar. –TR

  • Just finished the STP (204 miles in one day)

    Its late, actually early (Sunday morning) — but I just got back today from doing the STP.  204 miles of cycling fun taking you from Seattle to Portland.  Lots of fun — me and my closest 9000 friends pack the streets of Seatle till you are able to create some space (by riding faster than…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 updates (preupdate moved into download area)

    Ok — I ran the preupdate through some more extensive testing and I’m happy with it.  I’ve also made a few other changes.  The biggest changes: Entity resolution — ability to set entity resolution by translation. Installation improvements — I’ve made some changes to the program so now MarcEdit 5.0 can be installed on machines…

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