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September, 2021 13

XML by Example

Book: XML by Example Author: Benoit Marchal An XML book I found much more approachable than the previously mentioned Professional XML. I recall this book being the one where XSL clicked into place for me, and also where I started to learn about DTDs and XML schemas. I’ve always had a general “hey, this one was helpful” [...]

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Professional XML

Book: Professional XML By: Didier Martin, Mark Birbeck, Michael Kay, Brian Loesgen, Jon Pinnock, Steven Livingston, Peter Stark, Kevin Williams, Richard Anderson, Stephen Mohr, David Baliles, Bruce Peat, Nikola Ozu Wrox was definitely one of those imprints that seemed to be serving the customer, possibly mythical, who needed to learn [...]

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On WordPress’s Posts Loop

I need a quick “non-quickies” post to unjam a page generation issue with this website so why not use it as an excuse to talk about how I create this website? I have a WordPress install that runs locally on my computer. Once a day I use a command line script to generate a full static site from this system and then rsync those [...]

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Code Complete

This entry is part 14 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]

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High Performance MySQL

This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]

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XQuery

This entry is part 12 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]

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Translucent Databases

This entry is part 11 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]

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Programming the Perl DBI

This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books. Earlier posts include A Sentimental Gen-X Programmer Culls his Tech Books, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X Second Edition, Danny Goodman's AppleScript™ Handbook, Database Processing, Web Design on a Shoestring, Designing with Web Standards, [...]

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