An important part of the ProfHacker 101 Manifesto is that we want to foster change by teaching people bits and pieces of technology that we use every day but others find totally intimidating. Markup ...

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

For Web programmers, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is not only a lingua franca – it’s the water that floats the boat, the air that holds up the plane. In other words, it’s a free resource ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

If you’re interested in Android development, chances are you’re going to need to learn some programming. chances are that you’re also going to need to understand this markup language Unless you’re ...

First up, a scope warning for this article. This is the first part of a two-part piece about XML. Here I focus on uses of XML in areas such as application configuration files, the exchange of ...

If you haven’t heard much about XML lately, you’re not the only one. XML has been rapidly falling out of favor with developers and has been replaced with a more flexible and faster format. XML, the ...

As Google’s search results have increasingly become more visual, the importance of image optimization has grown — particularly in ecommerce, travel, and other verticals where users expect multiple ...