The first tents have been erected at the Camp, the NOC is there, some towers and the rest of the infrastructure continues to trickle in. Some photos:

Version 0.2 of the Camp Conference Schedule is available now. There have been some significant enhancements and adjustments (as usual)

The CCC is known for releasing the schedule of our events pretty late and for a reason: many proposals come in the final days and much of it usually has some significant relation to current problems and topics.

There is a online tool for building your own RSS feeds from Amazon.com [Notes from my terminal]

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„A web log! An online diary! A way to connect with millions and millions of Internet users and share my life!“ Dork Tower gets the point.

I am using XSLT for some years now for doing all kinds of processing like importing and exporting databases, converting markup code and generating web pages. Because I was using almost all of XSLT‘s features and some important extensions of the standard EXSLT function set, I needed a conforming and feature-rich XSLT processor.

So my first choice always was Michael Kay‘s most excellent Saxon which not only covers the published standards completely, but is always a bit ahead of the pack. This comes as no surprise as Michael Kay is the maintainer of the upcoming XSLT 2.0 standard and has written a highly recommendable book on XSLT which unfortunately seems to be out of print as the publisher Wrox came into deep trouble recently and their fate is unclear to me.

However, Saxon is written in Java and therefore it is pretty slow. The good news is that the other XSLT processors have finally catched up with standards support and I have happily switched to the XSLT C Library of the GNOME project which is much faster and has good support for EXSLT, multiple output documents and some SAXON extensions (like explicit XHTML support). Well done, guys! This made my day.

Hooray for Zoidberg!

The first version (0.1) of the Camp Conference Schedule is out.

This includes a description of the lectures and speakers I have covered here recently: John Gilmore, Stephanie Wehner, Mathias Bröckers, Gerhard Wisnewski, Paul Wouters and Simon Budig.

According to a press release, Thyssen Krupp has added another elevator car to existing elevator shafts in a building of University of Stuttgart so that there are now two elevators in one. The technical descriptions leaves things open like how you can get from bottom to top without changing cars, but maybe this usually doesn‘t happen in this building anyway. Who knows.

Simon Budig has been a member of the Gimp development community and has already done a lot of talks on using and scripting the Gimp and he provides a long list of tutorials and other resources on the Gimp on his home page.

Simon prepares two talks for the Camp: one on using the Gimp and another on how to write plug-ins for the Gimp. With the imminent arrival of Gimp 2.0 at the Gimp Developers Conference at the Camp, his talk will surely provide some insight on recent developments in that area as well.

Axon, Barbwire, Dada, Elbo, Feedcast, Loki, Sygnal, Wyre and SIKUS seem to be the final candidate for the name of this new content syndication standard usually referred to by Echo or Atom. You can vote on the final name beginning August 1st. Bloggers are asked to link to the vote. So here you are.