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- Speculation about Microsoft's mysterious X#
- One of the more intriguing things to come out of Microsoft lately was a nearly throw-away comment from Don Box, a principle creator of the SOAP architecture and an architect with Microsoft's XML Standards group. When Don spoke at the IDEAlliance XML Conference 2002 in Baltimore, he announced that Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Kurt Cagle, XML, PSVI
- Technical articles 2003-04-10
- The merging of GPS and the Web
- My daughter engaged in a very 21st-century pursuit the other day, one that reminded me how different her world is from what mine was at the age of ten. Her teacher a former geologist had the kids break up into groups of four each, and then he sent them out...
- Tags: GPS, identifier, Kurt Cagle, waypoint, Web
- Technical articles 2003-07-11
- Red Hat Cygwin provides UNIX shell scripting in Windows
- Software and hardware deployments within most IT shops don't usually occur all at once. For instance, IT managers may have worked out a strategy for deploying Windows 2000 servers coexisting with Windows 98 (and even a few Windows 95) boxes. Over time, Linux servers begin to show up as well...
- Tags: information technology, IT Shops, Kurt Cagle, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Inc., shell, shell script, Unix
- Technical articles 2003-06-18
- The future looks PHPerfect
- My first real exposure to Web programming came in 1993, not long after the concept of using HTTP as a vehicle for running Web services moved out of the experimental stage and into everyday use. Since that time, a plethora of server-side languages have emerged, all designed to make the...
- Tags: Kurt Cagle, PHP, Web
- Technical articles 2003-06-04
- XMetal 4 and the return of the XML document
- In the beginning, there was the Standard Generalized Markup Language SGML. SGML evolved from the need of large corporations to better work with both paper and electronic communication, and by the early 1990s, it was both a demonstrable success and a bit of a problem. The difficulty with SGML lay...
- Tags: Kurt Cagle, SGML, XMetal, XMetal 4, XML, XML document
- Technical articles 2003-05-20
Additional Resources
- R.I.P. - Kurt Vonnegut
- My first "rock star" authorKurt Vonnegut was the first author I can remember making an effort to follow. I read "Cats Cradle" and wanted to read everything he wrote.He was my first "rock star" author and I miss him already.
- Tags: Mark W. Kaelin, Kurt Vonnegut
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Beginner's XML book for VB users?
- Hello,Just wondering if anyone knows of any good technical training books that teach XML concepts at a beginner's level (i.e., XML, XPATH, XSLT, DOM, SAX, DTD, etc.), but using a VB.NET/VB 6.0/VBScript platform, instead of Java/JavaScript/C++? Thanks(I got the XML beginner's book from the Wrox series, but since it...
- Tags: galahad04, Microsoft Visual Basic, programming, XML
- Q&A 2005-02-23
- Computer Scientist Always Uses McAfee 24/7 Protection
- Dean Cagle, a twenty-something computer scientist living in Northern California uses McAfee software to protect his home computer from online threats. Dean primarily uses his computer for gaming. Dean most appreciates that McAfee runs invisibly in the background to automatically scan downloads, IM, and email attachments, preventing hidden viruses, adware...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Computer, Productivity, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Case studies
- R.I.P. - Kurt Vonnegut
- One of the great literary science fiction writers of all time has passed on: Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. I am hardly qualified to say much on the matter, especially when so many more eloquent, informed, and important folk have laid out such fine words on...
- Tags: Novel, Lesson, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- cacls weirdness
- Hi all, I'm trying to solve a folders permissions problem for a school. The basic issue is that My Documents gets redirected in a Group Policy setting to personal folders on a server. That server's D: partition is shared out as, say, MyServer. Because both instructor...
- Tags: targetDir, server, server 2003, error, syntax, cacls, //MyServer/Class1, jrcagle@..., networking, permission
- Discussion threads 2006-08-31
- Good schema management helps to maintain XML namespace
- By Kurt CagleWhat is an invoice?If you take a look at the vast number of different XML formats being used to describe something as intuitively simple as an invoice form, you can see one of the problems that is now beginning to crop up in many companies—namely, that everyone has...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, schema, XML, XSM
- Technical articles 2003-03-18
- MCT Success Story: Bill Ferguson
- Kurt Honbarrier, vice president of operations for TeKnowledgy Summit, a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center CTEC in Birmingham, Alabama, describes Bill Ferguson as one of his best trainers. TeKnowledgy Summit's customers - including Mercedes Benz and US Pipe - are impressed and put at ease when they're told that Ferguson...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., TeKnowledgy Summit
- Case studies
- Cannot run Windows Update or MBSA 2.0
- I cannot seem to figure out why the Windows Update site will not work for one of my servers (Win2k3 SP1). When I access the site I get the following message:"The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below...
- Tags: kdyck, MBSA 2.0, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Update, windows
- Q&A 2006-07-27
- IT pros take a cautious approach to unions
- Would unions be good for the IT industry, or would they stifle the freedom associated with working in the tech world? Find out what several IT pros think about this growing debate and why it's important to make an informed decision.Having spent most of my career in the IT sector,...
- Tags: Union, Employee, Information Technology, Bill Detwiler, pervasive workplace, TechRepublic Inc.
- Technical articles 2001-02-14
- Don't waste your time supporting problems that don't exist
- We're moving some staff into a new suite of offices, which means that we're shopping for new furniture. This is also a great opportunity for us to choose some new workstation equipment to standardize on, and I've been talking with a very competent sales rep that has been helping us...
- Tags: Office, Kurt, Jim, Keyboards, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales, William Jones
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Modify a .ini file with this member-contributed admin script
- TechRepublic asked members to submit their favorite Network Administration scripts. You can use this script to modify a .ini file. One of the favorite methods that administrators use to automate repetitive tasks and push out changes across a network is with scripting. As a result, administrators often...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Administrator, Script, Networking, Network Administration
- Download resources 2005-10-13
- IT pros take a cautious approach to unions
- Would unions be good for the IT industry, or would they stifle the freedom associated with working in the tech world? Find out what several IT pros think about this growing debate and why it's important to make an informed decision.Having spent most of my career in the IT sector,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Bill Detwiler, information technology, Pervasive Workplace, Pervasive, IT Union, workplace
- Technical articles 2001-02-14
- Improve productivity, reduce costs, and deliver more effective solutions by practicing iterative software project management
- Iterative processes have gained widespread acceptance because they help software developers reduce risk and cost, manage change, improve productivity, and deliver more effective, timely solutions. But conventional project management techniques don't work well in iterative projects, and newer iterative management techniques have, thus far, been poorly documented. Learn how to...
- Tags: Software, Technique, Software Project Management, Addison-Wesley, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Software Development, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-09-27
- Cannot run Windows Update or MBSA 2.0
- I cannot seem to figure out why the Windows Update site will not work for one of my servers (Win2k3 SP1). When I access the site I get the following message:"The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below...
- Tags: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, Microsoft Windows Update, MBSA 2.0, kdyck, windows, Microsoft Windows, server
- Q&A 2006-07-27
- Does your support staff have a hard time estimating large work efforts?
- Builder.com columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on a host of project management issues in this Q&A format.Question:I am a team leader for a group of nine developers. In general, we do support and enhancements,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project management
- Technical articles 2003-02-10
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