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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
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Bill de hra has a blog post entitled Format Debt: what you can't say where he writes The closest thing to a deployable web technology that might improve describing these kind of data mashups witho...
Via Mark Pilgrim I stumbled on an article by Scott Loganbill entitled Googles Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed which contains the following excerpt The best way to explore Pr...
Jeff Atwood recently published two anti-XML rants in his blog entitled XML: The Angle Bracket Tax and Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax. The source of his beef with XML and his recommendations to d...
Andy Conrad, who I used to work with back on the XML team, has two blog posts about Project
Astoria and Project
Jasper from Microsoft's Data Programmability team. Both projects are listed as data
acc...
Miguel de Icaza of Gnumeric, GNOME and Ximian fame
has weighed in with his thoughts on the FUD
war that is ODF vs. OOXML.
In his blog post entitled The
EU Prosecutors are Wrong Miguel writes
Open stan...
In response to my recent post entitled ODF
vs. OOXML on Wikipedia one of my readers pointed out Well, many of Weir's points are not about OOXML being a "second",
and therefore unnecessary, standard...
This morning I stumbled upon an interestingly titled post by Rick Jellife which piqued
my interest entitled An
interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia where he writes
Im not a Microso...
Joel Spolsky has an seminal article entitled Don't
Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You where he wrote
A recent example illustrates this. Your typical architecture astronaut will take
a fact like "...
Joel Spolsky has an seminal article entitled Don't
Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You where he wrote
A recent example illustrates this. Your typical architecture astronaut will take
a fact like "...
Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to some of my old compadres from the XML
team at Microsoft and we got to talking about the JSON as an alternative to XML. I
concluded that there are a small n...
Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to some of my old compadres from the XML
team at Microsoft and we got to talking about the JSON as an alternative to XML. I
concluded that there are a small n...
Mark Baker has a blog post entitled Validation
considered harmful where he writes
We believe that virtually all forms of validation, as commonly
practiced, are harmful; an anathema to use at Web sca...
Edd Dumbill has a blog post entitled Afraid
of the POX? where he writes
The other day I had was tinkering with that cute little poster child
of Web 2.0, Flickr. Looking for a lightweight way to inco...
If you are a reggular reader of Slashdot you
probably stumbled on a link to the Groklaw article Novell
"Forking" OpenOffice.org by Pamela Jones. In the article, she berates Novell for
daring to pro...
Tim Bray has a blog post entitled Choose
RELAX Now where he writes
Elliotte Rusty Harolds RELAX
Wins may be a milestone in the life of XML. Everybody who actually touches the
technology has known the...
Brian Jones has a blog post entitled Politics
behind standardization where he writes
We ultimately need to prioritize our standardization efforts, and as
the Ecma Office Open XML spec is clearly furt...
The Office team continues to impress me how savvy they are about the changing software
landscape. In his blog post entitled Open
XML Translator project announced (ODF support for Office) Brian Jones ...
Mike Champion has a blog post entitled Why
does the world need another XML API? where he writes
One basic question keeps coming up, something like: "We have SAX, DOM,
XmlReader/Writer APIs (and the ...
If you're a regular reader of Don Box's
weblog then you probably know that Microsoft has made available another Community
Technical Preview (CTP) of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) aka C# 3.0. ...
I just noticed that last week the
W3C published a working draft specification for The XMLHttpRequest Object. I found
the end of the working draft somewhat interesting. Read through ...
Brian Jones has a blog post entitled Corel
to support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats which begins
Corel has stated that they will support the new
XML formats in Wordperfect o...
One part of the XML vision that has always resonated with me is that it encourages
people to build custom XML formats specific to their needs but allows them to map
between language...
Since writing my post Microformats
vs. XML: Was the XML Vision Wrong?, I've come across some more food for thought
in the appropriateness of using microformats over
XML format...
Over a year ago, I wrote a blog post entitled SGML
on the Web: A Failed Dream? where I asked whether the original vision of XML had
failed. Below are excerpts from that post
The...
Don Demsak has a post entitled XSLT
2.0, Microsoft, and the future of System.Xml which has some insightful perspectives
on the future of XML in the .NET Framework
Oleg accidental...
I've been following a series of posts on Oleg Tkachenko's blog with some bemusement.
In his post A
business case for XSLT 2.0he writes
If you are using XSLT and you think that X...
Tim Bray has a post entitled Thought
Experiments where he writes
To keep things short, lets call OpenDocument Format 1.0 "ODF" and the Office 12 XML
File Formats "O12X"...
Last week Andrew
Conrad told me to check out a recent article by Adam Bosworth in the ACM
Queue because he wondered what I thought about. I was rather embarassed to note
that ...
A recent comment on the Groklaw blog entitled Which
Binary Key? claims that one needs a "binary key" to consume XML produced by Microsoft
Office 2003. Specifically the post claims
No_Axe speaks as ...
There have been a number of amusing discussions in the recent back and forth between
Robert Scoble and several others on whether OPML is a crappy XML format. In posts
such as OPML
"crappy" Robertso...
I've been a long time skeptic when it comes to RDF
and the Semantic Web. Every once in a while I wonder if perhaps what I have a
problem with is the W3C's vision of the Semantic Web...
The announcements from about Microsoft's Linq project
just keep getting better and better. In his post XML,
Dynamic Languages, and VB, Mike Champion writes
Thursday at...
You know you're a geek when it's not even 7AM but you've already spent half the morning
reading a whitepaper about Microsoft's plans to integrate XML and relational
query language functionality ...
The former co-workers (the Microsoft XML team) have been hard at work with the C#
language team to bring the XML query integration into the core languages for the .NET
Framework. Fr...
In response to my post Using
XML on the Web is Evil, Since When Tantek updated his post Avoiding
Plain XML and Presentational Markup. Since I'm the kind of person who can't avoid
...
I've been reading some of the hype around microformatsin
certain blogs with some amusement.I have been ignoring microformats but now
I see that some of its proponents have started claiming that using...
I stumbled on Bus Monster last week and even
though I don't take the bus I thought it was a pretty cool application. There's a
mapping application that I've been wanting for a few years and I instant...
Today I learned that Apple
brings podcasts into iTunes which is excellent news. This will definitely push
subscribing to music and videos via RSS feeds into the mainstream. I wonder how long
it'll ta...
Joe Wilcox has a post that has me scratching my head today. In his post Even
More on New Office File Formats, he writes
Friday's eWeek story about Microsoft XML-based formats certainly raises
some ...
About a year ago, the folks at Sun Microsystems came up with a bunch of benchmarks
that showed that XML parsing in Java was much faster than on the .NET Framework. On
the XML team a...
Since the recent announcement that the next version of Microsoft
Office would move to open XML formats as the default file format in the next version,
I've seen some questions raised about why the Op...
About two and half years ago, I was hanging out with several members of the Office
team as they gave the details about how Office
2003 would support XML file formats at XML 2002. No...
It seems Jonathan Marsh has joined the blogosphere with his new blog Design
By Committee. If you don't know Jonathan Marsh, he's been one of Microsoft's representatives
at the W3C for several years a...
Stan Kitsis, who replaced me as the XML Schema program manager on the XML team, has
a blog post about XInclude
and schema validation where he writes
A lot of people are excited about XInclude and w...
Oleg Tkachenko has a post aboutone of the changes I was involved in while the
program manager for XML programming models in the .NET Framework. In the post foreach
and XPathNodeIter...
A little while ago I noticed a post by Oleg Tkachenko entitled Microsoft
licensed Mvp.Xml library where he wrote
On behalf of the Mvp.Xml project team
our one and the only lawyer - XML MVP Daniel
C...
Daniel Steinberg has a an article entitled Bosworth's
Web of Data where he discusses some of the ideas Adam
Bosworth evangelized in his keynote at the MySQL
Users Conference 2005. Daniel writes,
Bo...
I mentioned in a
recent post that I was considering writing an article entitled Using Javascript,
XMLHttpRequest and RSS to create an MSN Spaces photo album browser. It actually
...
Every once in a while I see articles like Aaron Skonnard's Contract-First
Service Development which make me shake my head in sorrow. His intentions are
good but quite often advising...
It looks like I didn't get an Extreme
XML column out last month. Work's been hectic but I think I should be able to
start on a column by the end of the week and get it done before the end of the mont...
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