Even if you fine-tune your database, your ADO code, your network, and so on, you will find that there is another way that beats them all when it comes to performance: caching. Caching is an old technique for increasing performance by storing frequently-used data on the server, therefore reducing cos

by Edd Dumbill. The first ever Knowledge Technologies conference, hosted by the GCA, is taking place in Austin, Texas this week. It is attended by a mixed audience of librarians, AI experts, knowledge management technologists, and the Web community. As far as XML is concerned, this means people from

The Certified Training Manual of the XMLComponents targets software developers who need to be autonomous with the XMLComponents technology. This manual is very pragmatic, and is built around workshops. It provides a lot of samples to build step-by-step.

LeapfrogXML(TM), Inc., announced the launch of its company, which has developed the first smart Web services for IT consulting companies, ASP's, Telco's and other customers. The company's mission is to be the leading provider of eBusiness Web services software that give enterprises the a

by Leigh Dodds Since XSLT and XPointer rely on XPath, developers are asking whether an XPath API should be created.

Telera, the Voice Web Infrastructure Company(SM), announced its conformance to Version 1.0 of the VoiceXML specification — an open programming language that makes Web content and Web-based applications accessible via any telephone through the use of voice commands or traditional touchtone input. Ba