Choose Life

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece […]

Meme(me)

Via Bertrand Delacrétaz 1. Take a picture of yourself right now. 2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. 3. Post that picture with NO editing. 4. Post these instructions with your picture. Yeah, that’s my girl sleeping on he sofa just behind!

XML schemas compatibility

This is the fourth installment of this series about managing backward compatibility in software development. Here I talk about what makes an XML Schema backward incompatible. I specifically address W3C XML Schemas but general principles applies regardless of the schema language you use. But first, why bother about XML Schemas compatiblility? Actually, in enterprise applications, […]