RSS can be a real time saver for BitTorrent enthusiasts. Rather than manually trawling many torrent sites hunting for material, most will agree it’s much more convenient for the content to come to the user. This is exactly what you can achieve by using RSS and these ten handy tips.

The FeedMyTorrents site allows you to create your very own RSS feeds, to be added in your favorite BitTorrent program. You can add new torrents through the website, which will be downloaded at home. Or you can add any of the pre-defined RSS feeds, to get your latest TV-show episode!

Page of INPNL Courses - RSS/Atom sindicate

A generic XML editor that works reasonably well for non-technical users seems to be a myth. Would a simple generic XML editor for end users be a valuable tool? What would it look like?

Implementation schemas are used to test documents that they only contain structures or values that can be accepted by a particular implementation of a standard schema.

I spend a significant amount of my working day staring at a web window pane within a browser. That browser may be written in C++ but is increasingly likely to be written in JavaScript or Python of even Java, not necessarily because these languages are any faster, but because these languages are generally easier to work with.

At OSCON 2008, Mike Hendrickson interviewed Jason Hunter about MarkMail.org a site which archives
34 million email messages from 6,470 open source mailing lists. Mike
asks Jason about the technology behind Markmail.org and how
MarkLogic’s products can scale to handle Petabyte-scale data

In the next few years a lot of people will be generating XBRL documents, in particular for financial filings to regulators. And a few years later a lot of people will be figuring out what to do with all that data too… I decided to take a look at whether XBRL could, keeping the same instance syntax and concepts, have a schema language transplant so that Schematron was used instead of XSD.

XML databases have long been something of a niche category in the database world, trying with varying degrees of success to provide the level of ease and accessibility for semi-structured content that is a hallmark of SQL databases, while at the same time providing as much of the sophisticated processing that XPath enables for stand-alone documents. The need is certainly there – a significant amount of the total "data" in the world does not necessarily fall neatly into Ted Codd’s relational table structures without significant shredding – yet XML databases have had a hard road to acceptance, in great part because each one offered their own (typically very distinct) mechanism for getting at that data.

A friend in the industry who works with ODF gave me a heads-up about a new Gartner report, available on Microsoft’s site which he describes as “delusional”. Of the three pages, I pretty much agree with their first and third pages. Towards the middle it gets a little, err, nutty to me.