Peeling kiwis
April 29, 2006 at 08:30 PM | categories: New Zealand
It's 25 hours until I leave for New Zealand. It will be a short trip - just two weeks - and I'll be working most of the time. But I intend to have fun anyway.
http://www.realbeer.co.nz/ looks like a good site for local beer: there aren't any beerfly entries for New Zealand (yet). I see that the realbeer.co.nz blog is pushing ratebeer.com instead, but there isn't much on that list, either. I get the feeling that New Zealand micros are about where California's were, ten years ago: they exist, but they aren't always easy to find.
I like a challenge.
http://www.realbeer.co.nz/ looks like a good site for local beer: there aren't any beerfly entries for New Zealand (yet). I see that the realbeer.co.nz blog is pushing ratebeer.com instead, but there isn't much on that list, either. I get the feeling that New Zealand micros are about where California's were, ten years ago: they exist, but they aren't always easy to find.
I like a challenge.
ISO-8601, made a little easier
September 10, 2004 at 03:32 PM | categories: XQuery, MarkLogic, Java
One of the nicer things about XQuery is that it supports xs:date, xs:time, and xs:dateTime (from XML Schema). But XQuery is short of handy ways to convert human-readable dates and times into ISO-8601, the XML Schema format for dates and times.
Life is much easier if your XML already has all the dates and times in ISO-8601 format. So I've written a tutorial on ISO-8601 dates, and how to generate them in Java.
Life is much easier if your XML already has all the dates and times in ISO-8601 format. So I've written a tutorial on ISO-8601 dates, and how to generate them in Java.