Category Archives: English

SOPA, PIPA, Owark and long term preservation

We use to distinguish things that are eternal and those that are ephemeral, but how valid is our judgment? Take Wikipedia for instance. I used to take for granted that Wikipedia was here for ever, up and running and ready … Continue reading

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Posted in English, Environnement, Society/Societe | 2 Comments

Happy New Year 2012

As usual, it’s been tough to select a picture… This one has been taken in the small woodland that isolates our orchard from the chemical crops grown by our neighbors. I like the contrast between the yellow of the ginkgo … Continue reading

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Dear oreilly.com, cool URIs don’t change, please!

Dear oreilly.com, I hope you will not mind if I am doing some buzz on your name, but that’s for owark, the Open Web Archive, a project that have been launched at OSCON 2011 and that could make good use … Continue reading

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Owark WordPress plugin v0.1

I am proud to announce that I have installed the very first version of my owark WordPress plugin on this blog. Note: the plugin is still in an early stage and I wouldn’t recommend to install it on your blog! … Continue reading

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What’s next for XML?

Seems to be what’s next for XML time again! As far as I remember working with XML, people have been discussing what was next for XML… Back in 1999 -yes, that was last century!- when XML was only one year … Continue reading

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XML Prague 2011: XML against the web

After a frenzy period between 2000 and 2008 where I have spoken at an impressive number of conferences, I temporally retired and hadn’t been at a conference since XTech 2008. For me, XML Prague 2011 was the first opportunity to … Continue reading

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Wireless

In the wild without your wireless phone? I dare you! The first time I went out without a wireless phone I felt isolated, weak, out of reach and out of control: I was 100 meters from home but I could … Continue reading

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See you in Prague

Just got the confirmation that I’ll be presenting a paper on XQuery injection at XML Prague March 26th or 27th. I look forward to attending once again this conference which in a few years has become one of the best … Continue reading

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String Formatting in XSLT 2.0

To migrate my photo albums from Gallery to WordPress, I ended up having to transform XML fragments such as: <row> <field name=”g_id”>22909</field> <field name=”g_description” xsi:nil=”true” /> <field name=”g_keywords” xsi:nil=”true” /> <field name=”g_summary” xsi:nil=”true” /> <field name=”g_title”>dsc00001</field> <field name=”g_pathComponent”>aaa.jpg</field> <field name=”g_pathComponent”>011120-Forum-XML-2001</field> … Continue reading

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Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts: introducing adminstance

As a short term way to deal with my Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts issue, I have written a pretty crude Python script that I have called “adminstance“. This script can currently install, update and remove an instance of … Continue reading

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