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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Moving to...

I recently came to know that using trademark names as your Blog address should be avoided,wherever possible. So I decided to move my blog to Srini's Boulevard. I will keep this blog running for some time. Although, I have added redirects to my new blog, apologize if any of the links are broken. The new blog is a duplicate of this blog, so you will find all the information in the new blog too. Hope that you will find my new blog useful.
See you then!. Bye

Thursday, March 25, 2010

photo of the first bug





Actual photo of the first Bug - thanks to Prof. Mehran Sahami of Standford University & Smithsonian.
A short apocryphal story as told by Prof: In 1945, there was a lady by name Grace Murray Hopper ( click here to learn about Adm.Hopper ). She first woman admiral and was stationed at Harvard University.  who was from the Navy, working on Mark II Computer (it was those of Huge Vacum Tubes and relays). One day, they noticed that the Computer was working on fits and starts . So they opened the Computer and actually walked inside the Computer, to find a moth shorted-out between two relays. So she removed the moth and preserved the moth in her log book. The above photo is from the logbook kept at Smithsonian ( Smithsonian photo of first Bug) .

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Excellent Free JavaScript/XML /XSLT/FO editors

Found Excellent editors to edit XML/XSLT/FO editors
All the editors mentioned below are free (some editors do do not make available all the features in the freebie version).
XMLSpear: http://www.donkeydevelopment.com/#features
XMLFox: http://www.xmlfox.com/ Another free XML Editor. Some of the features are not available in the freebie version.
Editx: Excellent Free XML Editor, cool Features http://free.editix.com/ Requires you to buy, in order to use do FO Translations, XML and other features

For FO Translations:
RenderX: http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html

Microsoft:
Any mention without Microsoft XML Editors is incomplete (Not that it has any cool features). You can also use MS Word to create /Edit XML documents.
XML Notepad: Microsoft XML Editor

JavaScript
Yaldex: http://www.yaldex.com/Free_JavaScript_Editor.htm

Last but not the least,is Oracle JDeveloper - although I am yet to go through it completely and one which I intend to make my favorite - to download goto:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html

"Paid" Editor:
Of course, there are other "paid" version of XML Editor, which have superior features, some offering fully functional "trial" versions. I have listed below a couple of them:
XMLSPY http://www.altova.com/simpledownload2c.html?gclid=CMrz8q37zqACFYd-5QodfEqp5Q
oXygen: http://www.oxygenxml.com/

XSLT, FO & Others

FOP: Other Resources
I stumbled upon this excellent collection on XSLT, FO and other resources including Java (thanks to Rodolfo Raya of IBM - to visit his page click here )
Of course, I should thank Michael Morrison too, since he had mentioned about about apache.org in his book.