You may have noticed that it is quiet on this site. I now split my time more or less evenly between the Centre for Social Justice and a new educational charity for honest money and social progress, which will launch soon.
I am available for occasional consulting engagements in electronic financial reporting, but please first approach my clients CoreFiling.
For more information, see stevebaker.info.
Six fast hours of work later: full featured CMS-driven site with a page structure in place, ready for anyone to add content.
Nearly free: you need a handy server and should make some donations.
After delivering a successful three-day XBRL training course to a tax authority, I am about to deliver two further courses to an enterprise software developer: two days for developers and a half day for managers. Major business application developers are beginning to ask for XBRL courses.
So, I believe XBRL is about to take off in the UK. Please contact my client CoreFiling for more information.
… and look what happens.
In the two years I have been in the City, XBRL has come a long way. CoreFiling is really starting to pull things together.
I have been using CoreFiling’s Spidermonkey recently. It’s good, really good.
Building on the Eclipse platform, CoreFiling have not only rocketed ahead of their competitors in the field of XBRL taxonomy development, with a tool that is robust, usable and effective, but they are also offering a free personal version.
I recommend you go try it for yourself.
A busy few months since my last post, working outside the field of software, but I’m back.
Right now, I am working on three different XBRL training courses – for managers, developers and taxonomists – and it looks like I may be traveling to consult in the Antipodes and the Caribbean…
If time allows, I plan some XBRL tutorials…
37Signals’ Getting Real is a great read. As they say, straight-through server-side systems require more rigour, but I can see this is the way to go for web applications:
Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing.
And I’ll be making time – at last – to learn Ruby on Rails…
When you find yourself schema validating in an XML IDE – I mention no names – and the error messages make no sense, use Xerces2 Java instead. Alternatively, use XSV or even Microsoft’s MSXML.
Certain XML IDEs have extremely poor schema implementations. This is unfortunate because they make it so very use to use schema validation and therefore stretched developers will use and trust these poor implementations.
You can ask me for help on this subject, but try Xerces2 Java first.