Friday, June 12, 2009
So I've moved off of Graffiti CMS and migrated my blog posts (via BlogML) to Oxite -- Microsoft's open source blogging platform. As much as I wanted to love Graffiti, I wasn't a huge fan of VistaDB; I've even heard rumors that the product's been dropped by Telligent earlier this year. But mainly as a developer, what I really wanted was full control -- so switching to Oxite seemed like a natural progression.. and it's packed with lots of goodies -- including MVC, Unity and AntiXSS. It wouldn't be a good product without all the problems, so getting started
Thursday, June 04, 2009
This is a follow up on a prior post I've made a few months back on XQuery, with the purpose of this post to just show a few more examples on how powerful XML and XQuery can be -- with no additional overhead costs. If implemented correctly, you can even get better performance gains; but I'll possibly discuss that in a future offering. For this segment, I wanted to document the common usages I've come across lately, and refer to it later on as a refresher. Example 1: So, you've got xml data, and the structure looks as such: key1 value1
