Archive for August, 2003

XML Spy Rocks

Thursday, August 28th, 2003

I have been using XML Spy for building small site of mine. It?s really nice program, I have tried XML Spy few times before but I felt that there is to high edge to learn again another tool but now I finally got into it and it is really nice.
I use XML Spy as a content management system. I have my data physically on my hard drive as small xml files and then in a other folder I have site configuration as another XML files. Then by using XML Spy project I compile XML in to XHTML just by pressing F10 little bit like in VS.NET you compile project by pressing F5. Neat :)

dotNetCal on his way

Thursday, August 28th, 2003

This summer I started to develop dotNetCal the internet calendaring and scheduling program. Last month I came to state that XHTML-templates were ready and I had to create or choose proper XML schema for handling calendar data. Now after late nights searching and surfing I have come to conclusion that there is no any good/easy one. In fact everyone still uses old VCAL based format.
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Macromedia.com site redesign

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003

I was just peaking into to xhtml code of Macromedia.com and I can just say WOW! Great work who ever did it.
This site proves that you can make good looking sites and use xhtml+css for designing it. No crappy html+table designs. Try out to look this site without CSS. Nice nice nice.

Oh yes, and if you haven’t been any tech blogs or desing news site in last couple of days you probably haven’t check this out either.

Slammer worm nuke plant network

Friday, August 22nd, 2003

Oh my god… What kind of people puts Windows running into Nuke Plant Network. Just think what can happen with nasty virus. Well, I guess they don’t run their reactors cooling systems on Windows XP :D I hope…
Heh, I can image that Homer Simpson who realizes that he can log from home to Nuclear Plant Intranet and can maintain core remotely. :D Anyways, more serious story about this at Securityfocus.

Simple XML/XSL tree navigation

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

Here is a simple XML/XSL tree navigation. I have made almost all XML/XSL navigations based on this XSL.
XSL transforms XML tree to XHTML list view.

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The W3C’s web ontology language, OWL

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

The Semantic Web is Closer Than You Think says Kendall Grant Clark at xml.com Kendall Clark explains why it plays a major role in making the Semantic Web a reality. Semantic Web is a very beatiful idea but I just can’t see that it is any closer today than it was 4 years ago.
W3C Candidate Recommendation Web Ontology Language, OWL overview

The W3C’s web ontology language, OWL

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

The Semantic Web is Closer Than You Think says Kendall Grant Clark at xml.com Kendall Clark explains why it plays a major role in making the Semantic Web a reality. Semantic Web is a very beatiful idea but I just can’t see that it is any closer today than it was 4 years ago.
W3C Candidate Recommendation Web Ontology Language, OWL overview

Tables or DIV’s?

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

I’m re-designing my little portfolio site and I came up again problem how should layout HTML? Should I use tables or div’s?

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Tables or DIV’s?

Thursday, August 21st, 2003

I’m re-designing my little portfolio site and I came up again problem how should layout HTML? Should I use tables or div’s?

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CSS tricks

Wednesday, August 13th, 2003

I just remember again how fun is to write CSS, Cascading Style Sheets are like opposite to xml/xhtml and xsl. With xhtml you need to always think data when CSS is just for hacking data into nice presentation. Especially now days when we have Mozilla and IE6. I have found really good place for CSS tricks, The css-discuss Wiki.

Today I have discover !important very useful when you want to cascade inline styles and css “xpath” when you don?t have classes in nodes.
For example. .myTable tr td{styles} will give styles to all nodes which are grandchild of .myTable class.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/