The Django REST interface makes it easy to offer private and public APIs for existing Django models. New generic views simplify data retrieval and modification in a resource-centric architecture
Rules in (and for) the Web have become a mainstream topic since inference rules were marked up for E-Commerce and were identified as a Design Issue of the Semantic Web, and since transformation rules were put to practice for document generation from a cen
Here's a script I've been using to run XPath queries from the command line. It's handy for unit testing. If your code does a lot of XPath stuff, it'll be useful to unit test the query without running the whole program. The script shown here is simple, fre
XPath Checker is a Firefox Extension I wrote for testing XPath expressions interactively. You might find it useful if you use xpaths or want to learn how.
This is an insanely long and gnarly essay about implementing, then optimizing, the low-level bits of a pure-Ruby XML parser. If you obsess about XML reading, deterministic finite automata, or Ruby code optimization, you may find some part of it interestin
One night five developers, all of whom wore very thick glasses and had recently been hired by Elephants, Inc., the world’s largest purveyor of elephants and elephant supplies, were familiarizing themselves with the company’s order processing system wh
September 1, 2006 — XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design. I’m talking about perverting XML for programming applications. It’s inapprop