XML Prague 2009
I attended the XML Prague conference again this year; it was great to go back again after it took a break last year. Personally, I think this was probably the best one yet, with excellent content all...
View ArticleA blast from the past
Recently I had been unpacking some boxes of older and more obscure belongings that I never felt the need to unpack, I have moved house twice since 2004 and these boxes have only just been unsealed!...
View ArticleIn need of Open Storage
A few years ago I came to the conclusion that I needed reliable storage for some of my more important work related files; should I lose such files, work opportunities and/or money could be at risk. I...
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Building my DIY NAS
After previously deciding to build my own NAS, having defined my requirements in Part 1 and identified suitable hardware and software in Part 2, I will now discuss the build first in terms of the...
View ArticleChoosing Software and Hardware for my DIY NAS
In deciding to build my own NAS, after having identified my requirements in Part 1, I set about searching for the perfect hardware and software combination...There are plenty of open source operating...
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jQuery XHTML Checkbox problems
Whilst working on some jQuery (1.4.2) script in combination with the eXist-db bibliographic demo app, I had a situation whereby I was trying to switch XHTML form input checkboxes on and off when the...
View ArticleNetBeans Platform Application - Memory Settings
I have been working on an application for annotating TEI texts on behalf of Oxford University Computing Services. The application embeds the oXygen XML Author v12 into the NetBeans Platform v6.9,...
View ArticleOpen Indiana Web Hosting
I have been hosting my own websites for a couple of years now with a company called Entic.net. Entic.net offer Solaris hosting, by providing full VPS's (Virtual Private Server's) via Solaris Zones...
View ArticleMoving to Frankfurt
Recently myself and some other core developers of eXist-db, an Open Source project which I have been involved in for over five years now, decided to start a commercial venture offering Support and...
View ArticleConfiguring Hibernate with all Annotated classes in a Package
Using the Maven Hibernate plugin, I am automatically generating all Hibernate ORM model classes from my existing database schema. The ORM model classes that are generated have Hibernate and JPA (Java...
View ArticleLDAP query for Active Directory User's Primary Group
When querying AD (Active Directory) with LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol), it is possible to easily retrieve a lot of attribute information about a user. However, it is not obvious or...
View ArticleInstalling Postgres 9.0 onto Amazon EC2 Linux
Amazon EC2 Linux is based on a customised version of Redhat Enterprise Linux, but sadly they do not seem to have Postgres 9.0 available from their Yum repositories. However with a bit of fiddling...
View ArticleInstalling Netatalk on OpenIndiana
It is possible to configure your OpenIndiana system to operate as a file server for your Mac using the AFP protocol, and if you have lots of lovely ZFS storage attached then it makes lots of sense. You...
View ArticleConnecting to OpenIndiana by XDMCP
I have a small NAS which I have built which run's OpenIndiana oi_151 and I wanted to be able to headlessly administer it, whilst I have SSH and thats all I really need, sometimes its nice to use a...
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EXPath HTTP Client and Heavens Above
Whilst writting a data mash-up service for the Predict the Sky challenge at the NASA Space Apps hack day at the Met Office, I hit a very strange problem with the EXPath HTTP Client. I needed to scrape...
View ArticleKeeping GitHub pages up to date with your master
For the RESTXQ specification that I am working on as part of my EXQuery efforts, I need to write up a "formal" specification for RESTXQ. The EXQuery RESTXQ code base lives on GitHub...
View ArticleXQuery Matching Based on Word Distance
Whilst at this moment I am meant to be preparing my sessions of the XML Summer School this year, I was reviewing Priscilla Walmsley's slides from last year and saw the following example given as a...
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