Arpan Desai's WebLog

Vindication tastes so sweet: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/java/compare/xmlperf/default.aspx

As I was catching up on email this afternoon, I noticed that Stylus Studio had sent out an XQuery-related newsletter which contained an interesting campaign to “ save XQuery on Microsoft .NET 2.0 ”. As I read through the email, a few issues and questions...

The Grinch (the watch, not Mark) Apparently Mark's ongoing saga with this "SmartWatch" is just that: ongoing. I remember when he walked into my office earlier this year and showed me his nice, new, shiny watch and the fact that with the press of a button...

I love PVRs. They let me timeshift television shows so that I can watch whenever I want. One good thing about PVRs is that I KNOW what I'm watching isn't stale. I know that the ten episodes of "The Daily Show" on my Media Center aren't all current, but...

An article I recently wrote about an XPathNavigator over DataSets is currently running on MSDN ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/datasetnav.asp ). Might be an interesting read if you ever perform XPath queries...

It seems that most members of the the blogging community succumb to posting a “Yesterday at the -Insert Name- Conference...”, so who am I to rock the boat. Yesterday at TechEd 2004 , Mark gave his talk on “XML Today and Tommorrow”...

So much for for blogging more regularly. But if there was ever a reason to start up again, Mark's recent post on XSLT 2.0 and Dare's response are as good a reason as you can get. As the XML Query (XPath, XSLT, XQuery, anything else) Program Manager for...

Some remarks on CNET's recent article with Tim Bray & an updated MSDN article on RSSBandit...

What to expect at PDC and the latest entrant to the blogging world...

Things you plan to do, but don't get around to....

Week in Cali does a body good...

Procrastination, evasion, and general laziness in the modern world...

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