posts brought to you by the category “sarah”
Das eez kaput! Sometime around 2002 I spaced the entire database
table that mapped individual entries to categories. Such is life.
What follows is a random sampling of entries that were associated
with the category. Over time, the entries will be updated and then it
will be even more confusing. Wander around, though, it's still a fun
way to find stuff.
Jirka Kosek : Understanding the node-set() Function
You might be wondering whether the node-set() function will be
part of [XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0]. The answer is no, but don't worry.
The authors of XSLT 2.0 made an important decision: result tree
fragments are gone. There will be no need to use the node-set()
function in XSLT 2.0 as you can operate directly on XML fragments
stored in a variable, as on any other node-set. Regardless, you
should put the node-set() function in your bag of tools as it will
take several years before XSLT 2.0 will be deployed as widely as XSLT
1.0 is deployed today.
Mark Bittman : Borscht is the highest and best use for a beet.
Apparently, the latest beta of OpenOffice reads and writes
DocBook.
Goal is to explore the possibility of using OpenOffice.org as a
WYSIWYG editor of XML content. The principle is to edit structured
documents using styles. These styles are then transformed to XML tags
on export.
Emily Eveleth loves jelly donuts:
It sounds to me like this says more about Ed's bias,
www.comixjam.org
Me : ASCOPE::Class::Null.pm 1.1
Snow men and assault rifles. They go together like...like..uh.
Some clever egg thought to stitch together the stills from the
webcam on the corner of Ste. Catherine and Peel
Meanwhile Ben Hammersley, in a fit of poetic license,
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : numinous
numinous adj 1: evincing the presence of a deity; "a
numinous wood"; "the most numinous moment in the Mass 2: of or relating
to or characteristic of a numen
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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : deleterious
Deleterious \Del`e*te"ri*ous\, a. [LL. deleterius noxious,
Gr. dhlhth`rios, fr. dhlei^sqai to hurt, damage; prob. akin to L.
delere to destroy.] Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a
deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. --
{Del`e*te"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Del`e*te"ri*ous*ness}, n.
web1913
deleterious adj : harmful to living things; "deleterious
chemical additives" [syn: {hurtful}, {injurious}]
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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : pucker
factor
The degree to which one is in mortal terror while
excecuting a dangerous task. Term credited to USAF A-10 pilots flying
ground-attack missions during The Gulf War.
ex. So, I'm ridin' in Bobby's new 'Vette and he takes
this corner at like 110 mph--serious pucker factor.
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : somniferous
Somniferous \Som*nif"er*ous\, a. [L. somnifer; somnus sleep
+ ferre to bring.] Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as,
a somniferous potion. --Walton.
web1913
somniferous adj : sleep inducing [syn: {soporific},
{soporiferous}, {somnific}, {hypnogogic}, {hypnagogic}]
wn
Eugene Eric Kim : Purple
is a small suite of quickly hacked tools inspired
by Doug Engelbart's attempt to bootstrap the addressing features of his
Augment system onto HTML pages. Its purpose is simple: produce HTML
documents that can be addressed at the paragraph level. It does this by
automatically creating name anchors with static and hierarchical
addresses at the beginning of each text node, and by displaying these
addresses as links at the end of each text node."
A little piece of happiness is knowing you're not completely alone
in the world...
Me : Net::Blogger.pm 0.6.1.2
chromatic : "Maybe it was the Perl XML fans talking about SAX being
important for more than XML,
but I realized that if I could write a backend
module to turn bytecode into XML, the tree matching and conversions would
be solved. The only tricky part that's left is generating XSLT or
XPathScript or whatever syntax to refactor an error pattern. ... So now I
have B::ToXML that can XMLize a code reference, and it works pretty
well."
Salman Rushdie : "Night after night, I have found myself listening
to Londoners' diatribes
against the sheer weirdness of the American
citizenry."
Eric Murphy : Jabberzilla Whiteboard update
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : fop
FU_KING OLD PEOPLE
ex. THAT FOP CUT ME OFFF!
see also :
fop dict-ified
David Brownell : Producing SAX2 Events
Radio Crankypant #0: Dave Winer, "The next release of Radio has a
new content management system, it's file-system-based..."
My mother : "I’m looking out my hotel window, looking east at
the full moon
just rising between the roof and spires of a
Buddhist temple, a wat, and the stupa-like Independence Monument. The
moon is low and orange against the blue-grey sky. The red and blue lights
that illuminate the Monument in bands representing the flag of Cambodia
are becoming clearer as the daylight falls. ... I live in Phnom Penh
now."
Movable Thoughts #5-8
Me : I'd like a sidebar with that thought, please.
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is pablum
| source : wn | Pablum n 1: a form of cereal for
infants [syn: {Pablum}] 2: a diet that does not require chewing; advised
for those with intestinal disorders [syn: {soft diet}, {pap}, {spoon
food}] 3: worthless or oversimplified ideas [syn: {pap}]
Steven L. Telleen : Intranet Organization - Strategies for managing
change
"Talking to companies that have implemented
Intranets, the toughest issues are not the technology but the people
issues. What is missing entirely is a book that takes a thoughtful look
at how an organization might transition to all these wonderful benefits,
what it means in terms of organizational needs, role requirements and
reskilling people and how the organizational strategy relates to the
technology decisions. In other words, the critical stuff that links
strategy and technology."
Gregory Nickonov : "It’s the same as buying a loaf of
bread,
and when you find the middle isn’t baked,
you come back to show the baker and get put in jail."
Gary Groth : "It was dangerous agitprop."
Claes Jacobsson : JavaScript.pm
"gives you the power of embedded JavaScript in
your applications. You can write your subs, classes etc in perl and bind
them to the JavaScript engine. Variables are converted between the
language automaticlly and you don't have to worry about that. ... This is
not a JavaScript runtime written in perl, it's simply an interface to
libjs from the mozilla crew."
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discomfit
| source : web1913 | Discomfit \Dis*com"fit\, v.
t. [imp. & p. p. {Discomfited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discomfiting}.]
[OF. desconfit, p. p. of desconfire, F. d['e]confire; fr. L. dis- +
conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See {Comfit}, {Fact}.] 1.
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. And his proud foes
discomfit in victorious field. --Spenser. 2. To break up and frustrate
the plans of; to balk? to throw into perplexity and dejection; to
disconcert. Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. --Shak. Syn: To
defeat; overthrow; overpower; vanquish; conquer; baffle; frustrate;
confound; discourage. | source : web1913 | Discomfit \Dis*com"fit\, a.
Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.] | source : web1913 | Discomfit
\Dis*com"fit\, n. Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. Such as discomfort as
shall quite despoil him. --Milton. | source : wn | discomfit n : a defeat
in battle [syn: {rout}, {discomfiture}] v : cause to lose one's composure
[syn: {upset}, {discompose
