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Access to Relational Databases: Call for Participation |
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2007-07-20: Position papers are due 10 September for the Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases to be held 25-26 October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities will examine commonalities, Read about W3C Workshops and about the Semantic Web. (Permalink) |
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CSS 2.1 Is a Candidate Recommendation |
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2007-07-19: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Implementation feedback is welcome through 20 December. CSS is one of the Web's most widely implemented languages. By separating the presentation of style from the content of documents, CSS simplifies Web authoring and site maintenance. CSS 2.1 is derived from and is intended to replace CSS Level 2. A snapshot of usage, the specification brings the language in line with implementations, fixes errata and adds a few highly requested features including the inline-block value for the display property, the color orange and the values pre-wrap and pre-line for the white-space property. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink) |
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MySQL K.K. to Strengthen its Presence in the Japanese Database Market |
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MySQL K.K., the Japanese arm of the open source database developer MySQL AB, has announced three new initiatives aimed at strengthening its expansion in the Japanese market: New Tokyo offices; a Japanese-language beta version of the MySQL 5.1 User's Manual; and the addition of a new corporate partner. |
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GRDDL Is a Proposed Recommendation |
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2007-07-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 24 August. Linking microformats to the Semantic Web, the GRDDL mechanism is used to extract RDF statements from XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT. Read about the Semantic Web. (Permalink) |
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Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format: Working Draft |
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2007-07-16: The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0. EXI is a very compact representation for the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. Using a relatively simple algorithm and a small set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event streams. Learn more about XML. (Permalink) |
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Option and Configuration Processing Made Easy |
 Many useful programs take arguments and configuration options. It's easy to add one or two, but as your program grows, the difficulty of allowing configuration concisely and intelligently also grows. Jon Allen demonstrates how to unify argument and configuration processing in a way that lets you write good code and your users get on with their work. |
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PHP 4 end of life announcement |
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Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued. The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5. For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP 5, we would like to point you to our migration guide. There is additional information available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2 migration guides as well. |
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MySQL Offers Free DBA 'Boot Camp' & Certification Testing to Senior Oracle Professionals and IOUG... |
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MySQL AB today announced a new series of 'MySQL Boot Camps', free one-day technical training classes for senior Oracle database administrators (DBAs) interested in expanding their professional skill-sets by learning advanced MySQL techniques. Qualifying attendees of the in-person classes will also receive a free copy of the 'MySQL Certification Study Guide' and a complimentary pass to sit for a pair of MySQL DBA Certification exams -- a $460 value. |
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Qype Users Share Information Thanks to MySQL |
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MySQL AB today announced that its database helps power Qype, the popular German multi-city magazine and review portal. The MySQL database gives Qype users quick and easy access to the addresses and GPS coordinates of places of interest in more than 2,200 cities and towns -- along with user reviews on them. |
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Note: SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP |
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2007-07-03: The XML Protocol Working Group has published SOAP 1.2 Part 3: One-Way MEP as a Working Group Note. SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2 provides a request-response Message Exchange Pattern (MEP) and a response-only MEP. SOAP Version 1.2 Part 3 provides a one-way MEP. Learn more about the Web Services Activity. (Permalink) |
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Planet i18n: Blogs on Web Internationalization |
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2007-06-29: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of Planet i18n. This community service created by the Internationalization Core Working Group brings together a variety of blog posts that discuss internationalization topics. You can subscribe to the RSS feed. If you own a blog with a focus on internationalization and want to be added, please contact Richard Ishida (W3C). Read more on the Internationalization home page. (Permalink) |
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