Don Xml's Grok This

Open source projects have been the talk of the tech blogs recently with the announcement that NDoc 2 is Offcially Dead, along with the mention that the project's sole develop was a victim of an automated mail-bomb attack because the project wasn't getting a .Net 2.0 version out fast enough for their liking.  Kevin has decided to withdraw ...

If you are into any of the social bookmarking discussions, you must go out and buy Peter Morville’s new book Ambient Findability .  ''How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured ...

This is the second of a series on Test Driven Development with Domain Driven Design.  It would be in your best interest to start at the beginning before reading this post. I’ve received a lot of feedback on the first post, via comments, instant messages, emails, and other conversations, all of it very good feedback, and encouraging me ...

Over on the Domain Driven Design discussion group Scott Bellware asked the group their opinions on how they go about driving their domain driven design implementation using test driven development.  Rather then just answering him there, where only the domain driven design folks will see it, I thought it might be better to not only answer ...

Tagging, tagging everywhere, but not a drop of connotation to be found. Seems like everyone is tagging their photos, blogs and music with extra meta-data to try to help describe the content.  Just check out sites like Filckr (for photos), Technorati and Del.icio.us (for blogs and websites), and MusicStrands and Last.Fm (for music) to see ...

I finally got around to publishing an updated version of my OPML file (aka all the blogs I subscribe to).  I use RssBandit as my blog reader, and I found out the hard way that it doesn’t support the most current OPML format.  OK, well maybe that statement is incorrect, since Dave Winer’s tool marks the OPML as version 1.1, but there is ...

Yes, it has been awfully quiet here since I came back from TechEd.  I’ve noticed my own silence, and I’d love to blog more, but I’ve totally consumed by some research I’m doing in the Full Text Indexing realm.  I’m a late comer to FTS, so I’m working hard at coming up to speed (as best as I can) on the subject.  ...