A number of times recently I’ve had the idea of preview-ability for different XML formats come up. Komodo has a simple browser preview built into it, and can show the preview in a split pane. It occurred to me that CSS could be used to do something interesting with the preview, so I wrote up an article about it on our community site. I think one thing this points out, there is functionality in Komodo that we did not intend or plan for, it’s simply cool stuff that is available because of the wonderful work that all the Mozilla contributors do. As an extended example, try out some DocBook editing in Komodo, along with some CSS from http://www.badgers-in-foil.co.uk/projects/docbook-css/ I’m sure this could also be done with DITA, but the Docbook examples seemed a bit easier and faster to try out.
Tech Debt Best Practices: Minimizing Opportunity Cost & Security Risk
Tech debt is an unavoidable consequence of modern application development, leading to security and performance concerns as older open-source codebases become more vulnerable and outdated. Unfortunately, the opportunity cost of an upgrade often means organizations are left to manage growing risk the best they can. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
