Dare Obasanjo - What is the biggest misperception of XML?

Posted: Apr 16, 2004 at 10:58 AM

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Dare Obasanjo discusses what's hard about programming XML right now and when we can expect it to become easier.

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ktegels and their little dogs too.

Apr 16, 2004 at 12:56 PM

Did anybody else think it was wierd to hear the alarm chimes during this? Made Dare seem even more powerful and ominous.
miies Payin' the bills with my mad programmin' skills

Apr 16, 2004 at 1:04 PM

ktegels wrote:

Did anybody else think it was wierd to hear the alarm chimes during this? Made Dare seem even more powerful and ominous.

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. It made me think of a particular scene in Iron Eagle (80s movie), where they're talking, an alarm sounds, and an F-16 is driven by.

(If you've never seen it, you'll have no idea what I'm talking about)
JasonBunting Atop Cheop's Pyramid in the Grand Canyon, Nov 1995

Apr 16, 2004 at 3:21 PM

I actually thought something similar, but more along the lines of a horror film . . . maybe I didn't have the volume up enough, so I only heard the higher notes, and it sounded like maybe there was someone sneaking up on them with a large chain saw . . . but the carnage never took place. I was left feeling dissatisfied . . .
Steve411 Me, all suited up!

Apr 16, 2004 at 4:18 PM

The best part of this video...was...the...ending...
just kidding.
rschieber Rob Schieber

Apr 16, 2004 at 4:42 PM

The alarms made me want to eat ice cream, or chew tobacco, or both simultaneously. I'm not sure. Ominously amusing....

It was easy to use that subdirective which pulls an xml file into an html page in a snap. Not much else seems as simple though.
PhrostByte

Apr 18, 2004 at 11:21 PM

ktegels wrote:

Did anybody else think it was wierd to hear the alarm chimes during this? Made Dare seem even more powerful and ominous.

It was a truck backing up, not alarms.
follesoe Jonas Follesø

Apr 18, 2004 at 11:44 PM

He sounds and looks like a hiphop artist. DrDre or something
Peter Peter

Apr 20, 2004 at 8:45 AM

We didn't get a whole lot of content in this video, but it is still nice to get to see and hear the man behind one of the best blogs in my aggregator set.