Dare Obasanjo's WebLog

A few months ago in Joel Spolsky's How Microsoft Lost the API War he wrote There are two opposing forces inside Microsoft, which I will refer to, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as The Raymond Chen Camp and The MSDN Magazine Camp. ... The Raymond Chen Camp...

In his post I Want RELAX NG! Tim Ewald writes This recent post on Mark Nottingham's site pushed me over the edge. I agree with Sean's comment: I want Relax NG. Can I make systems work with XSD? Yes, sort of. But it adds a ludicrous amount of complexity...

According to the current version of the Chris Sells XML DevCon page (don't bother bookmarking it, Chris Sells doesn't believe in permalinks so all the content on that page is transient) I noticed that Chris Anderson is presenting the following Developers...

Anders Norås has an interesting blog entry entitled A JavaScript XmlSerializer where he shows how to build a class equivalent to the .NET Framework's System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer class in Javascript. He writes In ASP.NET 2.0 it is possible to...

I have been remiss about talking about the ongoing and upcoming content on the MSDN XML Developer Center . The most interesting recent article has been Priya's Generating XML Documents from XML Schemas . In this article she provides a tool that allows...

On July 8th, a couple of us from the XML team held a hosted chat on MSDN Chats . The transcripts of the C# and XML chat are now available. We answered questions on our existing behavior in Everett as well as upcoming technologies in Whidbey. If there...