Hacking my Sonos

The previous project of controlling the lights in my living room with REST calls has...

Feb 07, 2013  - Tags:  # Hex  # SOAP  # Sonos  # Wireshark  # XQuery 

Controlling Philips Hue with XQuery

Playing around with a set of Philips Hue light bulbs.  Turns out you can control...

Feb 03, 2013  - Tags:  # JSON  # MarkLogic  # Phillips Hue  # REST  # XQuery 

Kettles, Spoons, Kitchens, and Jobs

Using Kettle – Spoon ETL tool to move data from an RDBMS to MarkLogic Don’t...

May 18, 2012  - Tags:  # ETL  # Kettle  # MarkLogic  # Pentaho  # PostgreSQL  # RDBMS  # Spoon  # XML 

‘Best’ advice from boss I’ve ever received

Me: After reading up on , I had the feeling that I was slightly ambushed...

May 13, 2012  - Tags: 

Obstacle Course Tutorial 1: Loading public API data into ML

U.S. Air Force photo/Benjamin Faske I’ve written a tutorial or two for this site, but...

May 11, 2012  - Tags:  # MarkLogic 

MarkLogic World 2012 Highlights

My favorite parts of the conference in no particular order: Demonstrations of features from early...

May 04, 2012  - Tags:  # MarkLogic 

Introducing Developers to XQuery in MarkLogic

In the last few month’s I have helped a number of developers enter the world...

May 03, 2012  - Tags:  # MarkLogic  # XPath  # XQuery 

Things I should have known: fn:doc-available($url)

Sometimes you run across something in a technology or domain that you really should have...

Mar 29, 2012  - Tags:  # MarkLogic  # XQuery