The XML Balancing Act - Part III, JSON (Revised)

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We have a spectrum of interesting needs, and a corresponding spectrum of solutions. Here's one dimension: the structured-ness view.

  1. Highly structured data.
  2. Semi-structured data, or the "mixed content model". We can further subdivide this into content which is "naturally" hierarchical, and a good fit for XML, and data which is …
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What a Data Warehouse Can Never Do

In one form, the question is "How do we handle the [X] transaction in the warehouse?" Another form of the question is "What do we do when [Y] changes?" The third form is less clear, but essentially the same: "How do we maintain [Z] in the warehouse?"

All of these …

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Technology Refresh

First, I'm a pack-rat; I worry about deleting something valuable. Specifically, I worry about orphaned files because the application software is no longer supported or the media is obsolete.

For example, my resume is a Hypercard stack. Really. Hypercard is an OS 9 application, and future OS X's won't support …

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Measurable Improvement

Here's what I observed.

Customer: "Our business performance isn't what we want. We think some of our intranet is no good."

Us: "We'd love to look at it."

Customer: "Not so fast. You can't 'look at it'. You have to propose a measurable change in business performance, define a fixed …

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