E3 2010 – Expo Coverage

E3 Expo or Electronic Entertainment Expo opened. We teamed up with Nixie Pixel and despite all the catastrophic disasters, ranging from erupting volcanoes that prevented air traffic and various oil spills that prevented ship traffic and seafaring, managed to get to Los Angeles on time.

All the major players in the electronic entertainment industry are here, E3 expo is the biggest industry-only event and we are covering it. Of course our focus is on strange, bizarre and insignificant. Big guys are getting their love too, but we are trying to focus on the little, borderline-crazy things, people and booth babes.

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Generating sample XML from XSD or DTD in Eclipse

XMarks XML schema diagram v1.1
Image by carol shergold via Flickr

Feature is useful if you are writing your XSD schema files or you have XSD schema files and want to create sample XML files for schema elements. Process is the same for generating sample XML files from DTD files.

How to do it. Simple.

  1. Create a project and add, import or somehow see created, generated XSD files in Project Explorer.
  2. Select your desired XSD file.
  3. Right-click and choose Generate->XML File
  4. New XML File wizard will pop-up where you define where generated file should be saved and what should be it’s name. When desired information is input-ed press Next.
  5. In Select Root Element window choose root element of your sample XML file. Root element can be any element defined in XSD file you choose to use for generation of the sample XML.
  6. Set content options and pay special attention to optional attributes & optional elements. Check those if you would like a complete XML sample.
  7. Name-space information is populated with name-spaces defined in chosen XSD file. You can manipulate the existing name-space information by changing prefix, adding additional name-space or create new name-space.
  8. Once you are satisfied click Finish.

And presto you have your blank sample XML. Edit it with the information you wish to present and your sample XML is ready. No XMLSpy or any other commercial tools required.

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10 reasons why Lena won 2010 Eurovision Song contest

I usually don’t do this, but here goes:

  1. She did everything for “him” or maybe “her”?
  2. Satellites should be slim, so they are commercially acceptable for launch.
  3. Her Englisch is purrfect.
  4. Swaying of the background vocals.
  5. Dramatic stop at about 2:15 of the song allowing listener to think about the lyrics.
  6. Geeks had 3 reasons to get hooked … left, right and … no no … physics, orbit and satellite.
  7. Maybelline sponsored televoting with free promotional gifts?
  8. Prepaid phones are available at reasonable price.
  9. Men actually voted!
  10. Its not about the voice but about spirit and presentation.
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Using menus in WordPress 3.0

Menus are a new big thing in the upcoming release of WordPress 3.0 and most of the theme builders will have to add at least some minor support in their themes for menus to work. Not so long time ago we tested one of the WordPress nightly builds and we had some trouble with our theme. It was about time to address these issues and see how much work will be required to add support for menus to our theme. It turned out that the work was minimal and really simple. We did miss few things that would be nice to have. Read on to see what needs to be done in your theme to support menus.

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LittleBigPlanet 2

Prequel was awesome. A platform breaking boundaries. For boys and girls, men and women. With singleplayer, multiplayer and online play. Announcement for second installment is here. And it looks better than prequel!

For more information check out official site, Follow RRunner or BigWhale on twitter for more up to date information.

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