September 26, 2004

Saxon 8.1 and grouping in XQuery

Cafe con Leche XML News: Michael Kay has released Saxon 8.1, an implementation of XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery in Java. Saxon 8.1 is published in two versions for both of which Java 1.4 is required. Saxon 8.1B is an open source product published under the Mozilla Public License ...

MSDN2

Tim Ewald shares some info on the MSDN2. Now that's soooo coooool! I think that's the best thing could happen with MSDN. And now I just don't believe they let Tim to leave MSFT! ...

Beware of aggresive news aggregators

Dare writes on "News Aggregators As Denial of Service Clients": Recently I upgraded my web server to using Windows 2003 Server due to having problems with a limitation on the number of outgoing connections using Windows XP. Recently I noticed that my web server was still getting overloaded with requests ...

Wesner Moise on Enums and Performance

Wesner Moise (.NET Undocumented) writes on enums perf in .NET. While enums are value types and are often recognized and treated like standard integral values by the runtime (in IL, enums and integers have almost no distinction), there are few performance caveats to using them. Enumerated types are derived from ...

Late time changes are harmful - EXSLT.NET 1.1.1

As it turned out unfortunatley I introduced nasty bug into date:day-name(), date:day-abbreviation() and date:month-abbreviation() functions while testing EXSLT.NET 1.1 before the release. Saturday and December never appeared :( Thanks to Chris Bayes for prompt bug report. Hence - EXSLT.NET 1.1.1 release. Please update. ...