XML Presentation

Here is our Presentation on XML.

In it we cover
- What XML is
- What it is used for
- Why to use it
- What a DTD is
- What XSLT is
- What it does
- Why to use it
- Why XML is not special and should be chosen with caution



http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1078297/xml.pptx

Our example files:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1078297/people.xml
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1078297/people1.xsl
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1078297/people2.xsl
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1078297/people3.xsl


Other sources:
http://www.w3schools.com/XML/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_dtd.asp
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleatt.html
http://xmlfiles.com/dtd/
http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points
http://www.renderx.com/Demos/fo2html/xml.pdf
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog

MQ - Presentation

Presentation given by the cool kids in the back row on IBM WebSphere.

Download it here - ibmwebsphere.pptx

Basically, IBM Web sphere is a Message queue that allows for you to pass information between systems that may not be of similar architectures, environments, or rules. One example was of a system meant to send mass emails as spam.

Awesome open source message queue. http://www.rabbitmq.com/
I personally use it to screen scrape a ton of webpages. I use one programming language that has an awesome screen scraping library, then pass it off to a statistical analyzer/modeler I am writing in a different language.