tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104954012012-04-15T18:33:37.050-06:00Scott Hudson's blog on XML, DocBook, Sci-Fi and Storm ChasingScott Hudsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17138905626335675244noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10495401.post-72922913675675204842011-04-15T14:33:00.002-06:002011-04-15T14:42:56.908-06:00

I've been representing Pelco by Schneider-Electric on the ONVIF standard since last July. Not only have we been involved in several key Working Groups, but also hosted the December Face-2-Face meetings at our corporate headquarters in Clovis, CA. We just achieved another big milestone this week: Pelco has just validated our first ONVIF-compliant product: DigitalSentry NVS! Details about the

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I recently went on a business trip to Hangzhou, China. Following is a log of my trip. You can view the pictures here. First, I made the mistake of staying awake the entire flight to get on “China time”. Should have slept the whole trip to be rested and recover more easily. BTW, Hangzhou is correctly pronounced “Haw-ng-Joe” Monday: Got to tour the Lingyan Temple (4 different temples, 1 giant

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This past Friday I was honored by the Colorado State University Department of Technical Journalism as part of the 2nd annual Alumni Media Festival. Out of about 150 entries, about 25 "Cammy Award of Excellence", 10 "Cammy Grande" awards, and 4 Best of Festival awards were given out. Entries spanned Broadcast, Newswriting, Public Relations an Technical Writing. Each entry was judged on a 0 to 100

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Seneca After 5+ years in content management consulting at Flatirons Solutions, I've decided to move on to new opportunities. I've had a great experience with colleagues and clients and had some very cool travel opportunities! In fact, I've achieved a few of my life goals and grown professionally and personally as a result. It has

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I'm very happy to announce the formation of the DocBook Subcommittee for eLearning! The DocBook Technical Committee approved the subcommittee and following charter on 21 Oct 2009: Background For more than a decade, DocBook has provided a structured markup vocabulary for hardware and software documentation. DocBook is now widely used in both commercial and Open Source environments. DocBook has

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I had the incredible opportunity to travel to India last week on business. It was hectic, so I didn't keep a regular blog for each day. Instead, I kept a brief log of my travels which I'm posting below. I also posted pictures to: http://picasaweb.google.com/shudson310/India2009. 4:30a local time, 23 Aug 2009 I'm in India! As I've only seen the airport and darkened roads at night to the hotel, I

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We held our FIRST Lego League team kickoff tonight! We have more than doubled the size of our team this year, and have maxed out the team size allowance. Our team this year will be the "Jumping Jelly Beans". We look forward to a wonderful season of fun and learning. Below are a few pics, trying out our Robot Mats General Training Mat. Our new bot was tasked with following the big curvy black

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I've just been accepted to present at XML-in-Practice 2009, September 30 - October 1, 2009 at the Arlington Hilton near Washington DC! My presentation entitled, Professional Publishing on a Shoestring Budget, will discuss how to optimize your multi-channel publishing processes using the latest approved DocBook v5.0 schema and the DocBook Publishers schema. Details on the conference are available

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Well, we finally got all the i's dotted and the t's crossed! The DocBook Publishers schema is available for public review. This is an effort I chaired to support the needs we've seen in the publishing industry. Many publishers spend considerable amounts of time and money developing and maintaining their own custom schemas and output rendering. This standard tries to address the unique needs of

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It is with a heavy heart that I blog tonight. I had to put my faithful friend, Duncan, to sleep today. He had cancer and was beginning to suffer. I couldn't let him suffer any longer. It hurts because I had his grandfather and father as well. We weren't able to continue the bloodline, so this is the end of an era. His grandfather, Laddie, saved me from a rattlesnake bite as a boy. He barked and

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Woohoo! I won the STAR TREK Easter Egg Sweepstakes, and they are sending me an official Phaser prop from the film! I guess seeing it 3 times opening week (twice in IMAX) helped! It is the best Star Trek film yet, so I'm very excited to win! It's also fun that this "ties" together my two favorite Sci-Fi universes... Here are some photos!

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Attention all DocBook fans!SourceForge is accepting nominations for its annual Community Choice Awards, so this is a great opportunity to Vote DocBook! Nominations are open until May 29th. Please vote for DocBook in the Best Project for the Enterprise category. If you want to do the same, click here! Get the word out using your social network and vote!

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A few weeks ago, I found an interesting article on gauging the success of Open Source projects. Since I contribute to several open source and standards initiatives, I thought I'd put the article to the test with the most prominent of these: DocBook. To give a little history, DocBook has been around since 1991. It is a very robust content model and considered the "de facto" standard for technical

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I saw the premiere of Star Trek last night. In short, absolutely stunning - especially in IMAX format! The special effects, sound effects, and soundtrack were awe-inducing. Fellow Trekker Bill Petro has an excellent review here. SPOILER ALERT: There were quite a few nods to the original series and the movies that I loved, including the creature from Ceti Alpha (ST:II), the Orion girl, Captain

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As I was watching the "Chuck Versus the Broken Heart" episode of Chuck, I was excited to see Michael Kay's XSLT book in the background! It appears that Agent Carmichael also uses XSLT... I also noticed Programming Perl, and a few Java books, but was most excited to see the familiar red book laying in the background!

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My colleague, Jim Earley, recommended trying Windows Live Writer. This is a test. Technorati Tags: web,tools,software Here’s where I work: Ideally, I’d like to find an editor that makes great use of div and span and lets me easily assign class attributes to them. Seems pretty easy so far. I'm going to post and see how it looks, since I use a custom template on my blog.

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I'm proud to announce that the DocBook Publishers SubCommittee presented the specification for the DocBook Publishers schema to the DocBook Technical Committee. In the meeting, the motion to approve the specification to DocBook TC Working Draft was carried! So what does this mean? Prior to this, the specification was "locked up" in the subcommittee as it was being developed. Now that it is an

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I found President Obama's closing statement to be the most interesting and impactful: So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood.

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Adobe just announced a new Technical Communications Suite, and has included support for DITA Learning! Full support for DITA standards Take advantage of DITA 1.1, including support for Bookmap, Indexing, and Glossary specifications, and use the DITA 1.2 Learning and Training Content Specialization (beta) to develop compelling training content. I'll definitely have to give this a try. The DITA

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Enjoyed the John Williams composition for the inauguration

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Unbelievable. I happened to be perusing iTunes and noticed a custom album that is on the "hot list". It's an album called "Songs about Obama". I have no idea if any of it is any good (looks like a lot of rap to me), but here's the list of songs: It's a New Day 3:39 will.i.am It's a New Day - Single $0.99 Obama Song 4:09 Michael Franti & Spearhead Obama Song - Single $0.99 Vote for Hope (

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Merry Christmas from the Hudson Family! From 2008 in Review From 2008 in Review We have had a great year! We spent a week in Washington DC in May learning more about our country. It was great to see all the things that we had been reading about in school. We went back to Juarez, Mexico for the week of Thanksgiving serving, playing, feeding and witnessing to the people there. God showed up

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We're back, despite over half the team coming down with stomach flu at the end of the trip. Here are some pictures from this amazing trip: http://picasaweb.google.com/shudson310/Mexico2008# Details to follow later, but we fed almost 1,000 people who might not have had a meal otherwise. There's been a lot of scary news about Juarez lately, too, so it's easy to see that these people really needed

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Some of you may think we're headed to Cabo or some exotic location, from the title of my post. Quite the contrary, we are headed to Juarez, Mexico for Thanksgiving this year. "Change" has been a big theme in the media and political spectrum this year, but we've been planning to return to help the poor in Mexico since we last helped out 2 years ago. We are working to Change peoples lives as best

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This was our first year in First Lego League, so we had no idea what to expect when we started the season. The plan was to learn how to build a robot, program it, learn about climate and have fun! The season started on September 5, and our team was able to meet once a week for about 2 hours. We tried to split the work up during each meeting, with some focused on research and some on building

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