Adsense is really working out for the CGN. In it's first three days it's already paid for the monthly cost of the site. I should have done this earlier.

The CGN got a nice mention on Lambda-the-Ultimate. Though they don't like my cluttering of the 'code generation' namespace.

It seems to me like there should be a standard for defining an editor for a schema. We have multiple validation mechanisms, but nothing for defining an interface that would create, edit, and update blocks of XML. Given that many systems are coming out with XML interfaces for configuration or data input, that we could unify the editing of the XML and provide a lot of value for these small applications.

It probably exists, I just don't know about it.

This was the content of today's blog spam:

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This was in the SPAM! Is the spam telling me to stop the spam? It wasn't spam about a spam blocking service. It was about a weight loss drug. I don't understand this at all.

According to my publisher .NET books are a hard sell. Little wonder since MSDN is such an amazing utility.

This new gizmo from Apple is really cool. These guys think of everything.

The Sun Java pricing model just seems nuts to me (quote from a CNET article):

Sun is also launching per-citizen pricing for its Java Enterprise System server software. While the company had committed to the idea earlier, it now has begun selling it according to population and how the United Nations ranks countries as more, less or least developed. Countries with larger populations and lower development pay less per citizen.

"Governments--when delivering driver's licenses, health care or fishing permits--tend to serve massive marketplaces," Schwartz said.

Under Sun's pricing, Mexico, a less-developed country with a population of 100 million, would get to use as much Java Enterprise System software as it wants for a charge of 81 cents per citizen per year. Nations classified as "least developed" pay between 33 cents and 75 cents per citizen, while "less developed" nations pay between 33 cents and $1.95 per citizen, spokesman Russ Castronovo said.

And how, by the way, does this make Java Open Source? Perl is Open Source, lemme see, the pricing model is, oh yeah, $0 no matter where you are. Same thing for Python, Ruby, TCL, GCC, Linux, etc. So what is this Open Source Java business about?

I've been working on my own Ruby Code Generation Framework called RNA. It's a modular support framework for generation that wraps multiple text templating languages and manages models as XML. It's kinda like Ant, but for code generation. The idea is to allow the user to concentrate on the logic of generation while managing all of the infra-structural stuff.

Now the Ruby choice was a great one to get my ideas off the ground. But I have to say that if I really want this thing to take off it's going to have to be ported to either .NET or Java. So I have been weighing some pros and cons.

One more plus for Java is that technology seems to flow better from Java to .NET and not the reverse. Arguably if the project was successful in Java there is a good chance that the .NET community will embrace it and do the port.

Any thoughts?

Yep, I see something new every day. Today it's OGDL. I found this when I looked for a Java implementation of YAML. I don't know the status of OGDL, but it looks pretty good. No Java support at the moment, it seems.

Mike Gundelroy gave me a pointer to highlight for code coloring. Very nice.