Signs on the SandOleg Tkachenko's BlogCrowdsourcing in action: results- March 30, 2008 I was writing about a pilot the Library of Congress was doing with Flickr. I measured also number of tags, notes and comments and repeated the process several times during last 2 months. Here are some numeric results: As expected, while tags, notes and comments still coming, in general the lines are almost flat after 50 days. Averages: 4.85 unique tags,&160; 0.39 notes, 1.34 comments per photo. The Library of Congress blog shared some real results: And because we government-types..http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000736.html Generating HTML excerpts- March 27, 2008 Here is another interesting problem: how do you generate HTML excerpts preserving HTML structure and style Say you have long XHTML text: <b>This is a <span style="color: 888">very long<span> text.<b> In browser it looks like this: This is a very long text. The text is 25 characters long. Now you need to generate a short excerpt - cut it down to 15 characters, while preserving HTML structure and style: <b>This is a <span style="color:...http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000735.html Generating Java using XSLT- March 20, 2008 We are working on yet another language migration tool and faced once again Java source code generation problem. Unfortunately Java doesn't have anything similar to .NET's CodeDOM, so we had to build own own Java generator. This time our development platform is XSLT 2.0. Yes, we are converting COOL:Gen (obscure 4GL model-based language) to Java using XSLT 2.0. XSLT 2.0 rocks by the way. This is first time I write production code in XSLT 2.0 and this is amazing experience. Suddenly all is so...http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000734.html Sergey Dubinets is blogging- March 5, 2008 Sergey Dubinets, the guy behind Microsoft XSLT engine and tools is blogging. Subscribed. Highly recommended. More XSLT bloggers from Microsoft: Dimitre Novatchev, XSLT: Riding the challenge Anton Lapounov: XML XSLT and Beyond Brought to you by the Signs on the Sand Job Board: Add a comment Comments feed Save to del.ico.us Digg It! Reddit It!http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000733.html |