Archive for November, 2008

Advantages of push-style XSLT over pull-style

November 25th, 2008

Working with more than a few new-hires over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that new XSLT developers often write pull-style XSLTs by default. However, this tends to defy XSLT’s functional heritage, and is not as useful as the opposite form, push-style XSLTs.
Pull-style XSLTs reach into the source document and pull out the data [...]


Horror Movies, Final installment

November 11th, 2008

The final installment… a little late.

Amityville Horror - (The OLD one, not the new one.)  I’d watched this before, but it was so much better than I remember it.  In fact, I felt it was the scariest movie that I ended up watching.  The scene at the beginning where the priest goes into the house [...]