August 2004 - Posts

• The MSDN Camp vs. The Raymond Chen Camp

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:32 AM by DareObasanjo | 26 Comments

• RELAX NG, XSD and XML Web Services

  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. Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 1:13 AM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments

• Chris Anderson: Developers Hate XML

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 4:49 PM by DareObasanjo | 10 Comments

• Building an XmlSerializer in Javascript

  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 Read More... Posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:29 PM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• New and Upcoming articles on the MSDN XML Developer Center

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:22 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• Transcripts of Online Chat with Microsoft XML Team

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 4:07 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments