(Michael McSharry) When we start out in HA we are excited to be able to control anything with some degree of automation. The simple things were exciting and made us lust for more. The typical route is the X10 ActiveHome that segways into Homeseer, MisterHome, or other PC-based automation engine. The

(sarav.r) In today’s IT world “Error Messages” or “Information Messages” in any systems are inevitable. In application development the messages are normally coupled in to the system. So, whenever customer asks for change in messages, developers get in to the code and change the messages, which is ge

(Dan Mabbutt) A lot of you may be wondering why you should care about “Regular Expressions” … or you might even be wondering what they are. Regular expressions search and select text. This “specialty technology” is taking on new meaning because text is coming back. Technologies like XML and We

(Micah Dubinko) As a fundamental part of the Web, hypertext linking has been the subject of repeated attempts at standardization beyond the basic format allowed in simple HTML. Such attempts can be characterized as efforts to balance machine processing ability with authoring convenience. The lat

(Bob DuCharme) Although the W3C’s XQuery language for querying XML data sources is still in Working Draft status, the recent XML 2004 conference showed that there’s already plenty of interest and many implementations. While the Saxon implementation may not scale up as much as the disk-based versions

(Phillip Perkins) XML provides a universal medium for delivering data, and IE 5.0+ offers the functionality to quickly create data solutions. One of these functions is the ability to bind HTML elements to data sources, specifically, XML data islands. (R)

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(Chris Dix) Web services are first and foremost about messages. No matter what platform you are using, what industry you are building services for, or what levels of complexity are available in your Web services stack, it all comes back to messages. When you are developing services or their corr

(Joe Gregorio) In my inaugural article, I outlined the four basic steps you needed to follow when creating a RESTful web service. Now let’s take those basic steps and follow them through a worked example. To stay on familiar ground we’ll create something that you may find familiar: a web bookmark se

(Edmond Woychowsky) Recently I needed to create a Web service that would allow an outside organisation to enter orders on a legacy system using XML. (R)