Hey Folks,

Another update here ... turns out... people do actually get stuff done in 
December.  And, as always, please feel free to chime in with other items I 
might have missed.

User Group Activity

 *   Marie Lichtle<http://twitter.com/#!/MarieLichtle> wrote up a great post 
summarizing the December MUGFr meeting with embedded slide 
decks<http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/mugfr-recap-2010-12-07>.
 *   Iain Finlayson just announced the upcoming January 27th meeting of 
NYMUG<http://developer.marklogic.com/events/nymug-2011-01-27>, featuring Brad 
Rix from MarkLogic partner, Flatirons 
Solutions<http://www.flatironssolutions.com/>, talking about enterprise 
development and deployment

Blogs

 *   Pete Aven<http://twitter.com/#!/peteaven> recast the Office Authoring 
guides into blog posts at
    *   PowerPoint 
Authoring<http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/ppt-authoring-func-guide>
    *   Word 
Authoring<http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/word-authoring-func-guide>
 *   Dipti Borkar wrote up a post on the new Office 2010 support in the Word 
and Excel 
toolkits<http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/marklogic-toolkits-update-dec2010>.
 *   Ryan Semerau<http://twitter.com/#!/xquerywebappdev> continues to write up 
really interesting pieces, including recently:
    *   Moving to higher levels in the Capability Maturity Model for MarkLogic 
applications<http://xquerywebappdev.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/moving-to-higher-levels-in-the-capability-maturity-model-for-marklogic-applications/>
    *   Using Declared XPath to Select Elements Dynamically and 
Safely<http://xquerywebappdev.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/selecting-elements-dynamically-and-safely/>
    *   Focus on the Business 
Layer<http://xquerywebappdev.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/focus-on-the-business-layer/>
 *   David Cassel<http://blog.davidcassel.net/about/> wrote up some really 
helpful posts at
    *   Adding maps to AppBuilder 
applications<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2010/12/adding-maps-to-appbuilder-applications/>
    *   MarkLogic and the Amazon 
API<http://blog.davidcassel.net/2010/12/marklogic-and-the-amazon-api/>

Projects

 *   David Lee<http://blog.xmlsh.org/> released xmlsh<http://blog.xmlsh.org/> 
1.1.1 as well as a version 1.9 of the MarkLogic 
extension<http://developer.marklogic.com/code/xmlsh-ext>.   He also tweeted 
about some XML<->JSON work he's doing as a follow on to his talk from Balisage 
last year.
 *   The XQuery-in-a-Browser <http://www.xqib.org/> folks released an 
alpha/prototype-stage of a pure-javascript version<http://www.xqib.org/js> of 
this code.
 *   Erin Miller added a UK dictionary to the public set we keep on 
github<http://github.com/marklogic/dictionaries>.


Upcoming Events

 *   The XML Prague 2011 call for 
papers<http://www.xmlprague.cz/2011/call-for-papers.html> has been extended to 
next Monday, January 10th.
 *   The MarkLogic Developer Community is a proud sponsor of the upcoming 
February 1-3 O'Reilly Strata Conference<http://strataconf.com/strata2011>, 
focusing on all-things data.

Best,
Eric Bloch

Director, Community
MarkLogic Corporation

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