OASIS is stuggling with a basic issue here: is the US patent system so out-of-control now that it is difficult for any standards body to operate?

W3C char guru new plop victory

A possible software design pattern for bipolar programmers and nasty data with outliers

One too many coconut hits on the head?

News on low-level W3C and IETF XML standards: xml:id, xml:include, xml:link, IRI, XOP,

After three years of trying alternatives, I finally have an architecture that mostly removes Java's remaining cog-stoppers for desktop applications under Windows: virtual utilities.

The web's most popular game has a new champion

A good chance to improve OASIS' direction: vote for RG!

Software development methodologies are usually couched in terms of improving software quality. But they often act by improving programmer quality.

My rough calcuations suggest you might have trouble with a string larger than 500,000,000 characters inside Java, or reading in a text file larger than 167 Mbyte, no matter how much RAM you have.