After advertising the committers site a little more it now has details for over 100 ASf committers. Not bad, but there are still over 1,100 who haven’t added their details yet. Somehow I suspect the current layout and organisation won’t scale that well if we ever get near to the full number, but it should [...]

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A while ago I started looking at using foaf files to allow ASF committers to add their information to a web site. All too often committers to the ASF go unnoticed and I felt it was about time we had some way of allowing people to add their details and gain some visibility. Of course, [...]

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http://www.lassila.org/blog/archive/2006/11/i_dont_mean_to_1.html

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Yes, it’s still not resolved and both sides are hardening their positions
I came home to find the latest company proposals. They even included a copy of their little “this is what your pension would look like” calculator*, which is very nice but ignores many of the considerations that aren’t in favour of their [...]

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After a couple of days of hacking on XSLT the site is now back in (almost) full working order and is updating on a regular basis. The reasons why this hasn’t been the case are boring and long winded, and now a matter of history
There’s still some work to be done and I’m [...]

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The last bank that I used for my main account, Barclays, caused me three problems in two weeks, so I swapped away to First Direct. Now, First Direc are going to start charging for current accounts (£10 per month!). I’m not one of those who would be affected, but the fact that they have decided [...]

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I’m heading off shortly to head to the first Google London OpenSource Jam. It should be a fun evening and I’m looking forward to seeing people I’ve not seen in a while. The range of things people want to talk about is quite large and should make for an interesting evening.

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Recently I’ve been using libxslt to do some XSLT transformations within a C application and, as you’d expect, it works well and is quite easy to use when you use templates stored in files. One of my use cases though involves using a template that is in memory - something that causes a few problems.
The [...]

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