The November MUGL features Jim Fuller of MarkLogic, visiting us from Prague. Jim is a long-time XQuery fan (which you can deduce from his Twitter handle: @xquery) who spent many years as a core contributor to the eXist open source XML database. Jim is now a Principal Consultant at MarkLogic.

The topic of Jim's talk is being productive with XQuery.

Jim's Abstract for XQuery - The GSD Language:

Recently I gave a talk at GOTOCON Arhus (where Google released Dart into the world) and I gave a presentation on XQuery.

Over the years I have consistently received feedback on XQuery being a productive language and I used this talk as an excuse to provide some foundation to this. The talk will present both anecdotal and evidence based analysis of XQuery productivity.

This version of the talk will provide more technical depth, as well as present a few XQuery gems, along with an exposition of some aspects of MarkLogic 5.0 (as it pertains to XQuery); in addition I will provide a late breaking overview of the cool Corona XQuery application, developed as an open source 'drop in' NOSQL replacement.