Ionrock Dot Org

I have doing a lot of reading on XML recently. It is pretty fascinating what people have done with such a simple technology. The essence of XML is a simple tree and a verbose method of labeling things. The creation of databases based on XML is pretty fascinating to me. But what I really like the the most is object serialization. I know this is not the most advanced thing in the world but to imagine saving all your program objects and getting to return to your program exactly as you left it is pretty exciting. Especially when you consider you don't have to use a config file or anything. Instead of config files, just keep a config object. Instead of a database, just use a data structure. Of course things get more complicated but the idea is really cool. It is a built in persistance that really makes life convenient. I am sure I will get more into the whole database side of things as I learn more about XPath and everything but I still think the whole serialization thing is pretty slick.