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The birth of XML

Written in 1999, this article is not prime news but it’s still a must read for anyone interested in XML: in this short buzzword free piece, XML’s father, Jon Bosak, describes the birth of his baby.

Next year at ATHENS

I gave my Web 2.0 tutorial for ATHENS 2006 yesterday afternoon and it was the first time I had the opportunity to teach to “real” students.
A few of them were really sleepy but the organizers had kindly warned me that their Parisian nights were pretty busy and that it was to be expected…
Most of the [...]

XML Power, a book powered by the XML Guild

We’ve sent the final editions of our chapters of XML Power to our editor and the book should be available fairly soon. But, did we need yet another book on XML?
XML Power should be different…

XML Power is the first book written by the XML Guild.
We have thought we needed a common project to work together [...]

Professional Web 2.0 Programming available on Amazon.com

Our book is now shipping on Amazon.com!
It should be available in Europe within a couple of weeks and I am eagerly waiting to see my first copy…

Newspapers 2.0

Ifra has published a new special edition of their magazine, newspaper techniques, dedicated to Web 2.0. Ifra present themselves as the world’s leading association for newspaper and media publishing and this special edition shows the level of interest from the newspaper industry for these new technologies.
I had the pleasure to contribute to this edition a [...]

Teaching Professional Web 2.0 Programming

I’ll have the pleasure to give a training based on chapter 1 of our book this coming Thursday (23/11/2006) from 2:00 to 5:00 pm (CET) for the ATHENS program.
Although this training is not publicly accessible but reserved to students who have registered through their University or Institution, it will be publicly broadcast and archived on [...]

A short URI on Amazon.com for our book

I am impressed! I wasn’t aware that such things did exist… Amazon.com has been kind enough to give us a short URI for our book Professional Web 2.0 Programming. This URI is http://www.amazon.com/web2-0thebook/.
This is a short and cool URI indeed and if, being a cool URI, it doesn’t change our book will always remain THE [...]

Web 2.0, professional… and Fun!

Phew! said Danny Ayers, relieved said Erik Bruchez. Our upcoming Web 2.0 book is written and it’s been both hard work but also fun.
This book is a long story, almost as long as my interest for Web 2.0…
A long time Web and XML expert, the marketing around Web 2.0 kept me away for a while [...]

YUI and XHTML

Update: Good news, Matt Sweeney from Yahoo! answered that they are in the process of rolling in XHTML support. This issue should thus rapidly become an old story!
That’s probably well known but I have been surprised to see that the Yahoo! UI Library doesn’t support XHTML or rather that it supports only XHTML documents that [...]

XHTML 2.0 and HTML 5: The figures

This post has been updated to take into account a mail from Björn Höhrmann with a heads-up about missing elements in the XHTML 2.0 list of elements.
The future of (X)HTML appears to be searching its way between two conflicting visions:

The W3C and its XHTML 2.0 Working Drafts.
The WHATWG and its HTML 5 counter proposal

I have [...]