Comments for Oliver Roup's Blog http://blog.oroup.com Technology | Politics | Culture Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:04:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” by gmelli http://blog.oroup.com/2008/03/04/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for/#comment-17230 gmelli Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:04:11 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2008/03/04/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for/#comment-17230 FYI. Here is the content Obama's speech: http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachrichten/nachricht/2231697.html I love the fact that he can speak to the people, connect with what he distances himself from, what he longs for ... but I see no program? You point to Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Marc Andreesen for quiet competence? Steve - quiet? Marc - competent? And what of Ballmer, Walton, and Welch... I hear metaphorical reaching. Cheers! It's been too long. --G FYI. Here is the content Obama’s speech:
http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachrichten/nachricht/2231697.html

I love the fact that he can speak to the people, connect with what he distances himself from, what he longs for … but I see no program?

You point to Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Marc Andreesen for quiet competence? Steve - quiet? Marc - competent? And what of Ballmer, Walton, and Welch… I hear metaphorical reaching.

Cheers! It’s been too long.

–G

]]> Comment on “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” by Benlog » Hope http://blog.oroup.com/2008/03/04/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for/#comment-17202 Benlog » Hope Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:55:55 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2008/03/04/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for/#comment-17202 [...] that captures my incredibly hopeful and enthusiastic state of mind, but my good friend Oliver beat me to it: Doesn’t some part of you still believe that there are special moments in the world? Special [...] [...] that captures my incredibly hopeful and enthusiastic state of mind, but my good friend Oliver beat me to it: Doesn’t some part of you still believe that there are special moments in the world? Special [...]

]]> Comment on Big Changes by tomhigley http://blog.oroup.com/2007/02/26/big-changes/#comment-130 tomhigley Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:21:58 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2007/02/26/big-changes/#comment-130 A great post. I will be surprised if you regret your decision for even an instant. Not because your experience has been in any way deficient, but because you have a few unfulfilled desires/dreams that require your energy and attention. I wish you well in your pursuit of those dreams wherever they may take you. A great post. I will be surprised if you regret your decision for even an instant. Not because your experience has been in any way deficient, but because you have a few unfulfilled desires/dreams that require your energy and attention. I wish you well in your pursuit of those dreams wherever they may take you.

]]> Comment on KML in Google Maps and the challenge of standards by rkumar http://blog.oroup.com/2006/12/27/kml-in-google-maps-and-the-challenge-of-standards/#comment-16 rkumar Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:19:18 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2006/12/27/kml-in-google-maps-and-the-challenge-of-standards/#comment-16 I disagree regarding xAL. There are data quality products that have implemented the complete specifications of xAL. 10 mb is not the size of one standard namely, xAL. OASIS CIQ has 5 standards, xAL for international address representation, xNL to represent party names, xNAL is a combination of name and address, xCIL to represent party centric information and xCRL to represent party relationships. 10 MG consists of schemas, several examples and many different documents. Complaining about a standard without understanding in detail is not fair. Because xAL is industry and application neutral, it provides the flexibility to end users to have a clear idea of how they want to implement and this is why the statement, "xAL can be used to define addresses in simple terms or in complex terms. It is up to the user to decide how they want to implement xAL." was introduced and should not be taken out of context. If Google Earth decided to implement xAL, then it is clear that xAL provides the fleibility to represent addresses of earth compared to other standards. Cheers I disagree regarding xAL. There are data quality products that have implemented the complete specifications of xAL. 10 mb is not the size of one standard namely, xAL. OASIS CIQ has 5 standards, xAL for international address representation, xNL to represent party names, xNAL is a combination of name and address, xCIL to represent party centric information and xCRL to represent party relationships. 10 MG consists of schemas, several examples and many different documents. Complaining about a standard without understanding in detail is not fair. Because xAL is industry and application neutral, it provides the flexibility to end users to have a clear idea of how they want to implement and this is why the statement, “xAL can be used to define addresses in simple terms or in complex terms. It is up to the user to decide how they want to implement xAL.” was introduced and should not be taken out of context.

If Google Earth decided to implement xAL, then it is clear that xAL provides the fleibility to represent addresses of earth compared to other standards.

Cheers

]]> Comment on The joys of screenscraping by dirko http://blog.oroup.com/2006/11/05/the-joys-of-screenscraping/#comment-8 dirko Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:00:10 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2006/11/05/the-joys-of-screenscraping/#comment-8 Oh, somehow my post must have been cut a little bit.... and now this explains that Olivers code had been somehow parsed and cut too! My intention was to point out that you have to define the Map Object at the beginning of the inner class Java5 specific to make the code compile and I guess this was, what Oliver actually had implemented anyway. If I would write this down one more time, it would be cut again, so just exchange the dollar signs in the following code with the mathematical signs for and 'greater than' and 'less than'... let's hope that the dollar signs are not gonna be erased ;-) class MutableNamespaceContext implements NamespaceContext { private Map$String, String$ map; public MutableNamespaceContext() { map = new HashMap$String, String$(); } Oh, somehow my post must have been cut a little bit…. and now this explains that Olivers code had been somehow parsed and cut too! My intention was to point out that you have to define the Map Object at the beginning of the inner class Java5 specific to make the code compile and I guess this was, what Oliver actually had implemented anyway. If I would write this down one more time, it would be cut again, so just exchange the dollar signs in the following code with the mathematical signs for and ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’… let’s hope that the dollar signs are not gonna be erased ;-)

class MutableNamespaceContext implements NamespaceContext {

private Map$String, String$ map;
public MutableNamespaceContext() {
map = new HashMap$String, String$();
}

]]> Comment on The joys of screenscraping by dirko http://blog.oroup.com/2006/11/05/the-joys-of-screenscraping/#comment-7 dirko Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:24:55 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2006/11/05/the-joys-of-screenscraping/#comment-7 The screenscraping example is simply great. Here's a short hint about the inner class MutableNamespaceContext, concerning the faulty jdk setNamespace problem. I couldn't just use it as it was cause it wouldn't compile. So I changed the first lines to: class MutableNamespaceContext implements NamespaceContext { private Map map; public MutableNamespaceContext() { map = new HashMap(); } The screenscraping example is simply great. Here’s a short hint about the inner class MutableNamespaceContext, concerning the faulty jdk setNamespace problem. I couldn’t just use it as it was cause it wouldn’t compile. So I changed the first lines to:

class MutableNamespaceContext implements NamespaceContext {

private Map map;
public MutableNamespaceContext() {
map = new HashMap();
}

]]> Comment on The joys of screenscraping by hackdiary http://blog.oroup.com/2006/11/05/the-joys-of-screenscraping/#comment-2 hackdiary Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:33:38 +0000 http://blog.oroup.com/2006/11/05/the-joys-of-screenscraping/#comment-2 <strong>Update: Screenscraping HTML with TagSoup and XPath</strong> UPDATE: Oliver Roup has published updated code that uses the builtin XPath processor in JDK 1.5 Some emails and comments on Screenscraping HTML with TagSoup and XPath alerted me to the fact that the example I gave on that page has gone out of sync with... Update: Screenscraping HTML with TagSoup and XPath

UPDATE: Oliver Roup has published updated code that uses the builtin XPath processor in JDK 1.5 Some emails and comments on Screenscraping HTML with TagSoup and XPath alerted me to the fact that the example I gave on that page has gone out of sync with…

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