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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 the basics... What is OData? Where Did OData Come...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2010

  • 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 of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-20-2008

  • 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 Services Framework Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-04-2008

  • 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 called The Social Cloud . Great backgrounder to...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-12-2008

  • 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's a bit of background on why I find this post...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-13-2007

  • 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. One of the sessions I'll be looking forward to...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-28-2007

  • 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 I never use it. [ ] No angle brackets. [ ] Too simple...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-16-2007

  • 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 . Good background reading on the topic is this October...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-13-2007

  • 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 for transforming data model instances (XML and...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2007

  • 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 investigation one thing has become immediately obvious...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-25-2006
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