Chaos Magnet

Where to find help with Atom, RSS, XQuery, XPath, or XForms

Well, I've been doing a bunch of Atom content for developerWorks, so they asked me if I would host an Atom and RSS forum to help answer any questions people have, and I'm happy to do that. My XQuery/XPath 2.0 forum has been going pretty well, so they thought they'd have me do another one. Tyler's been in charge of a form to get XForms help, but it's been a little quiet. (Which is too bad, because if people have questions, they'll have his full attention. :)) Apparently, they've also been featuring my XForms Sudoku series on the home page for several weeks, which is unusual. I'm pretty excited about that. They're probably pushing it because of the podcast.

Life on the other side of the mic

I've done a ton of interviews, but always as the interviewer. Yesterday I got a call asking me to be the interviewee for the IBM developerWorks podcast. They're featuring one of my articles, Use XForms to create your own Sudoku game on the developerWorks homepage this week.

I think I was almost more interested in seeing the interview from this perspective than actually doing the interview. Scott Laningham is really a great interviewer; he's great at putting people at ease, and I learned a heck of a lot from the experience.

And I've never been compared to Buckaroo Banzai before, which was funny. But is it pathetic that I wound up actually referencing my own blog?