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When browsing the web I came across this post by Robert Blum. It sounds so simple and then I realised: I had done this before! One day, some years ago I decided to get through a large backlog of magazines. Something like 2 years’ worth of monthly computer magazines. Starting on the first it [...]

Yesterday I realized that finishing an open loop does not necessarily mean doing the obvious.
When looking for a specific jigsaw puzzle in the attic I found a huge project: a 5000 pieces puzzle of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. I got it from an old relative when he found out that I liked jigsaw puzzles. I’ve tried finishing [...]

The list of finished projects is very stimulating to finish more projects and add them to the list. There is one drawback: working on bigger projects needs Next Actions and finished Next Actions are not recorded.
However, there is a paradox: I never liked the GTD systems that use a text file for marking off Next [...]

I’ve read and reread David Allen’s Getting Things Done book several times in the past few years and every time I find something new in it. I know I should start implementing the system by following his process of mindsweep, setting up folders and lists and contexts and start working. Been there, done that and [...]

This is a test to see if it’s possible to improve the editing of this blog using Xinha and Xinha Here! in Firefox. And it does very nicely.
I was already familiar with HTMLArea through Cocoon, but development stopped. A few months ago I was pleased to read that Xinha picked up where HTMLArea stopped. Yes, [...]

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Trial and error got me as far as writing an xquery to group related XML fragments in a new order, based on a key/value pair. Now it was time to move that query into a function of its own.
Several Google searches later I found either “define function myfunction()” or “declare function myfunction()”. Both resulted in [...]

Somehow it’s impossible to find information about XQuery that explains how to use it. There is of course the information in the W3C specs, and some tutorials, but they hardly go beyond the “hello world” level.
I’m faced with the task of reshuffling a huge XML file into something that can be imported in a [...]