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Why OData Matters (IMHO)
Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with...
How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)
Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework ). Nice write up. Three memories...
Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)
As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria : Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data...
Social Clouds, XML 10 Years Old, and Honourable Mentions
The Social Cloud Kevin Marks is a software engineer at Google, was principal engineer for Technorati and one of the founders of Microformats . In this video Kevin talks about the big picture re: the phenomenon of online social networks in a presentation...
The Web Standards Fluster Cuck
Clucking bell, Molly Holzshlag really has kicked the web standards beehive with a blog post expressing her great discontent with the W3C and WaSP . Ridiculously Inadequate Backgrounder Now, before you head off and read the post and the 60+ comments, here...
I'll be at MIX07
I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be....
JSON - are you ready?
Assaf's post cracked me up this morning - JSON Assessment Questionnaire: Are you ready to make the transition? . Here's a sample: The problem with JSON is … (item: true) [ ] I never used it, so I wouldn’t know. [ ] That’s why...
Posted: Mar 16 2007, 10:39 AM by alexbarnett | with 1 comment(s)
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MSXML4 will be kill bit-ed in IE
The Microsoft XML team has announced MSXML4 will be kill bit-ed in IE in the October - December 2007 timeframe. The team is also *strongly recommending* developers who use MSXML to program with MSXML6 and upgrade apps using older versions to MSXML6 ....
Posted: Mar 13 2007, 08:19 AM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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Good news for XQuery and XSLT fans
Good news for XQuery and XSLT fans - the W3C has announced the W3C Recommendations for XQuery 1.0 as an XML-aware syntax for querying collections of structured and semi-structured data both locally and over the Web and XSLT Version 2.0 , a specification...
Best practices with MSXML on the browser
Adam Wiener, Lead Program Manager for Data Programmability / XML Technologies, has worked closely with the IE team in the lead up to the IE7 release. As part of that process, Adam looked at the use of XML in the browser and concluded: "During this...
Posted: Oct 25 2006, 03:20 PM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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Agile Development at Microsoft
Chris Lovett , who works in our XML Team (within the Data Programmability team) has been interviewed discussing the process used for the development of XML Notepad (an unsupported tool released by the team last month - you can download it here ). The...
Posted: Oct 16 2006, 09:40 PM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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The Future of XML
Mr Scoble got talking with Sun Microsystem's Tim Bray , a co-creator of the XML spec. I've not listened yet, but this interview sounds too good to miss : "Even Tim Bray is blown away at the popularity of XML. He was one of the co-creators...
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