about Sean McGrath

Sean McGrath is CTO of Propylon. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on XML and related standards. He served as an invited expert to the W3C's Expert Group that defined XML in 1998. He is the author of three books on markup languages published by Prentice Hall. Visit his site at: http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com

See Sean's ITworld blog "The Left Field".

What I've posted

The inevitability of cruft

Opinion | Development | 6/18/08 at 7:48 pm | add a comment | 4I like it!

XML: How to get the benefits without the heartache, part 2

How-to | Development | 6/2/08 at 2:50 pm | add a comment | I like it!

XML: How to get the benefits without the heartache, part 1

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Agent technology - the next big thing?

How-to | Tech & society | 5/22/08 at 11:03 pm | add a comment | I like it!

How to design well by trading well and guessing well

How-to | Development | 5/16/08 at 2:56 pm | add a comment | I like it!

Coping with RSI -- a field report

How-to | Development | 5/9/08 at 2:38 pm | add a comment | I like it!

Intranets have eyeballs too

How-to | Business | 5/5/08 at 1:13 pm | add a comment | 1I like it!

When choosing an integrated development environment, prefer lumberjacks to magicians

How-to | Development | 4/28/08 at 3:58 pm | add a comment | 1I like it!

How to stop worrying and learn to love IT complexity

Opinion | Business | 4/21/08 at 1:02 pm | add a comment | I like it!

Defining success for IT projects

Opinion | Business | 4/11/08 at 2:03 pm | add a comment | 2I like it!
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