Man vs Code : XQuery

Data Access Panel at TechEd 2004

aconrad — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:06:00 GMT

I will be hosting a Data Access discussion panel at TechEd 2004:

DATPNL Data Access Round Table

Thursday, May 27 11:45 AM- 12:30 PM

The following people will be participating in the panel discussion:

Mark Fussell – Lead Program Manager for System.Xml and English soccer apologist

Pablo Castro - Program Manager for ADO.net and Argentinean soccer apologist

Luca Bolognese – Program Manager for ObjectSpaces and Italian soccer apologist

Arpan Desai – Program Manager for XQuery. (No World Cup soccer affiliation I believe).

The goals of discussion are 1) to compare and contrast the current data access technologies and 2) to discuss overall vision and future direction. However, I would also like at least some (if not a majority) of the panel discussion to be customer driven so hence I am asking for topics and questions. Please email me any and all suggestions.

Michael's book part II

aconrad — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:41:00 GMT

Michael Brundage’s (one of my co-workers from SqlXml days) new book on XQuery has sky rocketed to number 7172 on the Amazon.com sales rank. Although Michael will probably give me a copy, I am tempted to buy one from Amazon to see the effect on the sales rank.

Michael's book

aconrad — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:25:00 GMT

Michael Brundage ’s book on XQuery is now posted on Amazon. He tells me it is “done”. I read an early draft, and found it quite interesting and entertaining. Unfortunately, it won't be ready for the holiday season '03 (it will be out in early '04), so a lot of people are going to have to rethink their gift giving plans.

By finishing his book, Michael has motivated me to think about writing a book myself. My book won't be 448 pages long and probably won't be about XQuery. I believe I have settled on a topic and have actually started a couple of chapters, now I just need to get motivated to fully commit.

Incidentally, Michael is a graduate of Cal Tech which seems to be the modern center of science and engineering research. I didn't realize that fact until I read the memoirs of Richard Feynman which incidentally is an extremely good book.