XForms on the Intranet

Elliotte Harold has published a nice introduction to XForms in Firefox on IBM developerWorks. In the conclusion he notes that: Client-side XForms processing won't be possible for public-facing sites until XForms is more widely deployed in browsers. However, that doesn't mean you can't deploy it on your intranet today. If you're already using Firefox (and … Continue reading XForms on the Intranet →

Honey, I Geeked The Kids

Recent conversation at the Dodds Family Residence: Martha (who is three): Mummy, I want to go to the hair dresser Debs: OK Martha: I want to have the straggly bits cut so I look more like a Jedi Debs (to me): What have you done to my kids?! I don't think its entirely my fault, … Continue reading Honey, I Geeked The Kids →

Quakr

Quakr is a project to build a 3-dimensional world from user contributed photos, a.k.a. some friends having fun with geek hacking. I see they submitted an abstract to XTech too. The blog links to some interesting experiments mashing up Google Maps with a Flash and VRML viewer. The Quakr 7D Tiltometer is worth viewing too … Continue reading Quakr →

Five Things

The "five things" meme is still doing the rounds and it turns out I've been tagged by Phil Wilson. So here's five things that you almost certainly don't know about me: My wife and I got together at University after a Rag 3-legged pub crawl. Yes, my charm is so bad that tieing myself to … Continue reading Five Things →

XML Hypertext: Not Dead, Merely Resting?

"The dreams of XML hypertext are dead, or at least thoroughly dormant" Simon St Laurent's XML.com article on XQuery is an interesting read. But I think the above statement is worth discussing. Is XML hypertext really dead? Or, if its dormant, is it going to remain so? Firstly what is XML hypertext? I presume from … Continue reading XML Hypertext: Not Dead, Merely Resting? →