Brian Jones posted yesterday about the availability of the docs for the binary file formats of Office Applications.  ... Microsoft indicated that the documentation of the Binary Formats has been available royalty-free [since 2006] under RAND-Z to...

I mentioned in a previous post that I had to solve a little issue with the wonderful WMCMD.VBS script that Alex Zambelli maintains. Because of some occasional nastyness, when the script is done--successful or not-- it tries to kill it's own process, in...

Hey y'all. I've got some work goin' on that I sure could use a few hands that were real PHP savvy. I'm looking for some short-term and some mid-term consultants to do some experimental work with PHP applications on Windows. I have need for some...

I'm a big fan of Vista Media Center, and a really big part of that is the fact that I can use an XBOX 360 as a really-nice media center extender. When learned that the fall update contained support for MPEG4 Advanced Simple Profile (that's DivX to you...

As you might be aware, Microsoft release the FastCGI connector for PHP last fall, and it's creating quite a stir. Mike Volodarsky wrote an article for MSDN magazine that talks about what benefits IIS 7.0 provides to PHP apps: ... IIS had always...

I've been meaning to write this out for a few weeks... FireFox has had an extension which allows CardSpace to be used as an Identity Selector on Windows, written by Kevin Miller (with some assistance from yours truly :D) for some time now. Kevin has joined...

Well, after what seems like... well, forever, Vittorio , Caleb and I have finally seen the day when our book is available . About the book: "Windows CardSpace empowers organizations to prevent identity theft and systematically address a broad spectrum...

A little over a year ago, (when I was still on the CardSpace team) I woke up, and wandered over to my computer at home, and bleary-eyed started up a browser and saw the following: Whooosh! This was better than a triple-shot-breve-latte! I snapped fully...