I have a peculiar interest in testing tools… I’ve mentioned JMeter (which is more of a stress testing tool) a couple times before, I just found a new one on the Jakarta site call Latka, which “… is a functional (end-to-end) testing tool. It is implemented in Java, and uses an XML syntax to define [...]
If you use XML at all during the day (and who doesn’t) and you use Eclipse, read this article: XML development with Eclipse and then download the Eclipse XMLBuddy plugin. Very handy!
Tim Bray now has a weblog. He helped create this thing called XML. I hear it’s pretty big these days. To top it all off, I think he’s Canadian.
From the March (not yet online) issue of New Architect: SportsML : The Sports Markup Language: “SportsML aims to be the global XML standard for the interchange of sports data. Designed to be as easy to understand and implement as possible, SportsML allows for the exchange of sports scores, schedules, standings, and statistics for a [...]
XForms - the next generation of Web forms: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the XForms Activity. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, XForms separate purpose, presentation, and data. The Activity is producing advanced forms logic, improved internationalization, and rich user interface capabilities.
Spent time w/ C# and SOAP today. I rewrote this ASP/VB/SOAP example using C#. Wow is .NET way easier than manually writing out an XML packet, making a request, parsing said XML packet using VBScript… plus you get all the obvious .NET implied features like automatic creation of WSDL descriptors and generated [...]
I installed Jabber on my Linux server @ work yesterday. Took about 15 minutes to setup the server side, ‘nuther 15 to get a Linux client up and running and 15 to get a Windows client running and connected. Amazingly easy to do and I think Jabber could be very useful in a [...]
I mentioned that I had to import a large weather file as part of the FJ project… it *works* using simple VBScript and MSXML but it turns out that it kills the server. Couple other options I found:
a) probably the best way to do it was would be to use SAX instead of DOM, [...]
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