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Why the Way You Power AI and What You Feed It Determine the Outcomes You Get
April 20, 2026
As organizations have begun to adopt AI across search, copilots, assistants and internal tools, expectations have run high. With access to years and shared drives full of documents, files, emails and knowledge repositories, it felt logical to assume that AI would instantly deliver smarter answers and better decisions right away.
Static Pages vs. Content Modules in Progress Sitefinity CMS: Scaling Content with Structure and GenAI
April 14, 2026
As content volume grows, the way it is structured begins to directly affect speed, cost and operational efficiency. This is where content modules move from being a technical option to becoming a strategic advantage.
Your Association Has Answers, So Why Can’t Members Find Them?
April 02, 2026
This is the first blog in a three-part series on how associations can unlock more value from their content, especially from conferences, using agentic RAG technology and by using Progress Agentic RAG, specifically.
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DataDirect XQuery Developer Survey causing ripples through out software industry
I have been closely tracking the reaction to the DataDirect XQuery Survey that was published in eWEEK yesterday, and we are getting some interesting feedback. For...
Working with XQuery and HTML
A recent IBM DeveloperWorks article describes using XQuery, JTidy and DOM to query and transform HTML...
Query W3C Binary XML with XQuery?
Spotted an article on CNET's News.com discussing the possibility of faster XML ahead. It turns out that Binary XML has triggered plenty of chatter on this topic before, and I think it's important...
After glow: The ServerSide Symposium
Some excellent questions at my introduction to XQuery and XQJ talk - I'll post a PDF version of my presentation and a copy of some the questions I received shortly.
Otherwise, this was an excellent conference and all though the majority of chatter rotated around...
TSS - Day II
Although I missed the first day of the The ServerSide Symposium as I was en route to Las Vegas from London, many of the talks have been interesting. I am currently listening to Ted Farrell from Oracle who is discussing Oracle's core J2EE interests that focus primarily on...
Agenda: The Server Side Symposium
The agenda for the ServerSide Symposium had *finally* been posted. My time slot is scheduled for 12h00 to 13h15 on Saturday, March 5th and to get an idea of what I'll be talking about, I copied my abstract here:
This presentation is an introduction to XQuery for...
Join me at The Server Side Symposium
Another speaking engagement! I will be talking about 'XQuery and the XQJ API', giving the Java developer community a primer on the XQuery technology at the ServerSide Symposium. I am speaking on Saturday just...
Two excellent XQuery resources worth a look
Over the weekend, I came across two excellent XQuery resources that are definitely worth a look:
- Jon Udell's blog
- eXist, Open Source Native XML Database. There some excellent...
Top 10 Predictions for XQuery
Although this was published a few months back, it is good to keep track our new year's predictions. Over the next few months we will keep track as to how we are progressing.
10. T-minus XQuery and counting! 9. XQuery ... for the SQL weary 8. Access relational data as XML! 7. Access...
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