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April 2009

QueryPath News

Submitted by matt on Tue, 2009-04-28 21:05

This week is "QueryPath week".
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IBM developerWorks has published Get to know the QueryPath PHP library: A fast, easy way to work with XML and HTML. The article walks discusses the design of the QueryPath library, and walks through a simple Twitter search application.
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The folks at OpenAmplify have started tweeting about my screencast using QueryPath with OpenAmplify. I was gonna save the screencast for CMS Expo, but here it is. (If you are coming to CMS Expo, I might let you play with it.)

This short screencast presents a quick module I put together that uses QueryPath to retrieve and process web service information. The cornerstone of the application is the OpenAmplify web service, which provides lexical analysis of a text, returning information that can be used, well, to build stuff like this.

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Introduction to QueryPath

Submitted by matt on Tue, 2009-04-28 06:47

I recently recorded a screencast for QueryPath.org introducing QueryPath development.

This video provides a short walk-through of QueryPath's core features.

CMS Expo Presentations

Submitted by matt on Fri, 2009-04-17 14:04

At the end of April, I will be presenting two sessions at the CMS Expo.

Session 1: JavaScript and jQuery

This session will begin with a survey of JavaScript usage. We will then cover jQuery in some detail. From there we will move on to a more general discussion of how CMS systems can benefit from JavaScript integration. The last part of the discussion will discuss some of the new and exciting features in recent browser development, and explore how those are changing the way CMS systems will interact with clients.

Session 2: QueryPath

This session will introduce the QueryPath library. We will see why a library like QueryPath is necessary, what it does, and how it works. I will be showing demonstrations of tools that can be built (quickly) in QueryPath, including Twitter integration, Amazon and SPARQL queries, and a as-of-yet-unveiled mashup featuring an exciting new web service.

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IE XMLHttpRequest, RSS feeds, and fixing it with Apache mod_rewrite

Submitted by matt on Wed, 2009-04-15 16:14

On occasion I have run into a strange problem, both with the RSS JavaScript widget downloadable from aleph-null.tv and with the code I wrote for Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery: Under certain conditions, the script simply does not work on IE 6, and IE 7. Firefox, Safari, and such don't seem to have this problem at all.

After a whole lot of digging, I found the problem, and devised a solution that will work out of the box with Apache (and with a little tweaking, it should work with other webservers, too).

Deploy: Move Drupal content from server to server in real time

Submitted by matt on Mon, 2009-04-06 08:53

The typical enterprise-grade publishing model for web sites typically has two or three tiers. Content is created and edited on a staging server, where it is carefully reviewed before publishing it to the live server. Additional development may even happen on a third ("development") server.

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