December 18, 2007
Call for Papers: Gilbane San Francisco 2008
They are now accepting proposals for panel participation and presentations for Gilbane San Francisco 2008, to be held at the Westin Market Hotel, San Francisco, June 17 - 19, 2008.
Join the content and information technology's leading analysts, IT strategists, and technologists at the industry's most popular and important conference this coming Spring. Share your expertise and experience, and network with the forward-thinking implementers and thought leaders.
How to be a speaker
Choose a topic area from the list below and see how to submit a proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2008. Topics to be covered in-depth include:
- Web Content Management (WCM)
- Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs
- "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Computing
- Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies
- Content Globalization & Localization
- Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
- Enterprise Digital Rights Management (eDRM)
- Publishing Technology
If you've never been to one of the Gilbane events and want see what we have been covering in our conferences, check-out the programs from the recent hugely successful Gilbane Boston 2007 and Gilbane San Francisco 2007.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:14 AM | Comments (1)
November 6, 2007
Microsoft SharePoint and the Enterprise Content Management Market
On Thursday, I will be doing a webinar on SharePoint and ECM. I wrote a bit about the topic over at Gilbane (and we have a white paper on the topic coming out shortly). If you are interested in attending the Webinar, you can register over at KnowledgeLake, the company sponsoring the webinar.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 8:44 PM
October 19, 2007
Does XForms Technology Have Momentum?
I have a few Google news and blog alerts that help me keep track of some technologies of interest. One is for XForms, which I receive as a daily digest, and I always get something every day, usually four or five items, almost all from blogs. Almost every item is technical and fairly in-depth, usually about something the blogger is prototyping or developing. I compare this to my alert for InfoPath, which doesn't come every day, and the items that do trickle in are rarely technical. Usually they are PR about a product, where InfoPath is mentioned in a list of technologies that the product works with. In fairness to Microsoft, I just played with a search for "forms services" in blogs, and got more hits from that, so I will set up an alert. Interestingly though, in Google blog search, I get a total of 2,016 hits for "forms services" and 35,585 for XForms.
In today's XForms alert, John Boyer of IBM offers some ideas for talking to C-Level types about XForms. For John, the business value of XForms comes down to this:
Read the whole thing.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:28 AM
October 13, 2007
Here and There
- Apparently, if it's online, it's trustworthy..
- MarketingSherpa has an interesting case study of how a newspaper tackled a redesign as it entered its 10th year online.
- Innondata Isogen offers a Post-Hype Playbook for the eBook marketplace.
- Imagine a whole evening of presentations on XForms.
- Adobe unveils "Thermo" and some other new technologies
- Quark users might be interested in a new resource site, Planet Quark.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 10:08 PM
June 27, 2007
Adobe Max 2007
Speaking of the major content technology companies, registration for Adobe Max 2007 is now open. I went to last year's fall event in Vegas (this year it is in Chicago), and my first impression is that this year's event has much more for the traditional Adobe Creative Suite community than last year's did.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 9:45 PM
February 14, 2007
WS-AreYouEvenStillReadingThis
Writing for IBM developerWorks, Elliotte Rusty Harold offers Ten Predictions for XML in 2007. I've always liked Elliotte's work. When SGML was giving way to XML, Elliotte wrote the first good book about XML, and he has gone on to write several more. His XML in a Nutshell is the book I always recommend to people looking for a solid overview and authoritative first reference, so his predictions mean something. He weighs in on a number of topics you would expect to hear about (XQuery, XForms, open document formats), and some that are less well known (the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP)). But the thing that really caught my eye was his skepticism about Web Services. The money quote: "Enterprises have absorbed as much Web services machinery as they're able to stomach. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and SOAP 1.2 are the end of the line. Many enterprises won't even get that far. WS-Choreography, WS-Transport, WS-Reliability, WS-Security, WS-Resource, WS-ServiceGroup, WS-BaseFaults, WS-Messaging, WS-KitchenSink, and WS-AreYouEvenStillReadingThis won't leave the station."
Posted by Bill Trippe at 6:47 AM
February 3, 2007
XForms Tutorial
After lots of promises over the past few months, the new Orbeon Forms tutorial is finally available! You can read it online or get it with any recent builds of Orbeon Forms.
The tutorial specifically targets the upcoming Orbeon Forms 3.5, of which you can find nightly builds here. The tutorial covers:
Installing and configuring Orbeon Forms.
Understanding the simple XForms Hello application.
Building from scratch the Bookcast application, which allows you to keep track of the books you have read...
Posted by Bill Trippe at 7:28 PM
January 7, 2007
Adobe Acrobat 8
I have my copy of Acrobat 8, but have been too busy to install it. But I was spending some time updating by eForms Resources page, and started looking at the list of new books about Acrobat 8. Not surprisingly, you could start a small library with them. So I decided to put together an Amazon aStore with Acrobat-8-related products. Shop early and often!
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January 3, 2007
XForms for UBL
Micah Dubinko highlights a new XForms for UBL project at SourceForge.
The Universal Business Language (UBL) provides standard XML formats for business documents. This project is to provide XForms which allow creation, processing and editing of UBL documents and XLST stylesheets to generate such forms.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 3:02 PM
December 28, 2006
Speaking of My Resource Pages...
... I also spent some time updating my eForms resources page.
Posted by Bill Trippe at 3:36 PM
