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 desk +1 650 655 2390 | mobile +1 650 339 0376 email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> web developer.marklogic.com<http://developer.marklogic.com/> twitter @eedeebee
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