Friday, September 8, 2000

Spent a few hours today at SoluTech attending a free XML seminar. The information presented was quite useful and timely. The presenter spoke very well and only spent the last ten minutes or so selling the classes that they offer. The rest of the two hours was spent on the understanding and application of XML. The biggest nugget for me was the existence of and migration to XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations ) This replaces the entire concept of the DTD with an XML based version. This leads to all sorts of interesting possibilities!!! (perhaps an XML based journal!)

Well, after numerous configuration changes and tweaks, it appears that I do not have a suitable scsi adapter for the Phillips CDR I mentioned. No matter what I tried, The system could never see it. So instead, I installed a second hard drive (18 gig) and a second cd-rom. These all work flawlessly, so I guess that is the way the box will stay. (at least for a while!)