10 years of "run like hell" - an anniversary after nearly 300 blog entries...

Ten years ago after a lecture given at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern i started this blog with this posting (about the lecture). And you can see: the link does not work anymore but the screenshot still remains after such a long time.
After this post, i owned a blog, with one entry and noticed that finding topics to write about is not really easy.
In August 2017 i started to write about Oracle products like jDeveloper, 11c, ... With more than 100 posts over 30% of the blog entries are related to Oracle. In respect to this fact my blog is listed by 2 Oracle aggregators.
But for the last three years i did not write about Oracle anymore. But nevertheless there are still readers visiting:
The blog was called 350.000 times in 10 years - not really a big site, but nearly 3000 readers per week.
So thank you for reading my postings - let's see if i will run like hell for another 10 years ;-)

10 years XML

On w3.org they celebrate 10 years XML and they have created a batch for everyone, who want to celebrate with them:

w3.org provides a page, where they try to explain XML in ten points.
Nice icons illustrate the points like this one adding structure into data by using XML

...XML is a set of rules for designing text formats that let you structure your data. XML is not a programming language, and you don't have to be a programmer to use it or learn it. XML makes it easy for a computer to generate data, read data, and ensure that the data structure is unambiguous. XML avoids common pitfalls in language design: it is extensible, platform-independent, and it supports internationalization and localization...

It is a really nice introduction for all, who are not so familiar with programming. I think, they should add an eleventh point:
XML is today the key point for data exchange in the world of service orientation and it is the base for WSDL, BPEL and other languages, which will influence the evolution of IT for the next ten years.

Oracle has integrated native XML handling into their Application Server 10g. There is an XML developement kit with the following key features available:

XML 1.0 (Second Edition)
DOM Level 2.0 Specification
DOM Level 3.0 Specification
SAX 2.0 & SAX Extensions
XSLT/XPath 1.0 Specifications
XSLT/XPath 2.0 Specifications
XML Schema Specifications

If you download the XDK, there are many demos included. I liked the XSLSample.java which you can invoke with two command line arguments. First one is the XSLT, the second one is the XML. With this example you can easily verify XSLTs and on the other hand you can learn how to write Java code to do it...
The SOA Suite uses this XDK for all XML processing. For all details take a look at this page. Examples are provided here.
I think everyone should be familiar with details of SAX/DOM (or XSLT or XPATH or...) and should know how it could be coded in Java or C.
Ten years after the specifiation of XML it is very well supported on all platforms and programming languages. Many generators are provided to help the programmers for their daily work with XML.
Let's see where we going in the next ten years....

A long time ago (part 3)

6/2005: One of the big television stations in Germany (ZDF) published a note about using Xyna Experimentierplattform for Webmining.
If you follow the link, you can download the pdf.
You can read there some numbers about the data amount:

In november 2004 59 of 86 million page impressions were analyzed. Not bad...

A long time ago (part 2)

Hey, i found another ancient document from 2001. It is about the developing software.
Take a look at here.

5 years ago the V-model was already discussed at the Gesellschaft für Informatik. Take a look at the last page: a book was published...

I am curious, what i will find next about GIP at the world wide web....

A long time ago...

Today i found a link to a talk given 2001 at the DOAG. It was held by a colleague and was the result of the membership of GIP to the Oracle 9i beta program...
Take a look at here:
Personalisierung

Just nice to proove, that 6 years ago personalization was already on the roadmap...

Ahnenforschung

Ein Freund hat mich per Mail auf die Seite www.ancestry.de aufmerksam gemacht.
Hier kann man beispielsweise unter
http://www.ancestry.de/learn/learningcenters/facts.aspx
die Häufigkeit des eigenen Nachnamens in Deutschland herausfinden.

Es existieren rund 2^10 Personen die Schroff heißen. Die exakte Verteilung könnt ihr euch unter
http://www.ancestry.de/learn/learningcenters/namedist.aspx?
anschauen.

Und noch eine letzte Anmerkung: Der Name Schroff ist nicht dadurch entstanden, dass die Personen durch ihre schroffe Art geglänzt hätten. (s. Ursprung bei www.ancestry.de)

Looking for the history of a website

Just found a nice link:

web archive (www.archive.org)

Give a URL into this machine and you will get a list of dates with links to the site like it was....