May 2007 - Posts

Nairobi Open XML workshop
29 May 07 11:22 PM
I just finished two days of Open XML workshops here in Nairobi, and had a great time. Kenya has a rapidly evolving software scene that was fun to see firsthand. These guys asked some questions I've never heard before, and pushed me to try some things Read More...
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Open equis-eme-ele
24 May 07 11:32 AM
I've linked to Julien Chable's excellent French-language posts about Open XML many times, and now after spending some time in Spanish-speaking countries recently I have a couple of Spanish-language blogs to recommend as well ... Chris Strevel of Intellekt Read More...
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Office Live developer workshops
22 May 07 02:50 PM
While I've been busy with Open XML workshops, my friends and colleagues Don Campbell and Rohit Puri have been getting the word out about Office Live development. Office Live is a new platform for web development that ISVs can use to quickly build and Read More...
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UOF translator project
22 May 07 12:41 AM
"There is a Chinese curse which says, "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times." - Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 Most historians now doubt whether there was ever any such curse. But its enduring popularity has made such Read More...
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Custom schemas revisited
19 May 07 08:15 PM
I've seen some signs of confusion about custom schema support lately. For example, I've seen a vendor claim that Open XML's support for custom schemas is "essentially inherent in XML itself" and that "there is nothing that OOXML supports via custom schemas Read More...
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Mexico workshop, Open XML links
18 May 07 07:19 PM
The Mexico City workshop for Open XML developers was the fourth and final one on the latest tour, and it had a great group of attendees. Everyone asked Mauricio more questions in Spanish than they asked me in English, but I've learned not to take that Read More...
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DIN working group on document translation
15 May 07 06:12 AM
“Instead of either/or, we’re enabling interoperability between various document standards” -- Gerd Schürmann, Fraunhofer FOKUS I was catching up on my RSS feeds after a busy few days, and came across references from Brian Jones and Stephen McGibbon to Read More...
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San Francisco Open XML workshop
14 May 07 05:57 PM
Are you working on an Open XML development project? Or interested in learning the fundamentals of how to create rich Open XML documents programmatically? If so, there's an upcoming event you should know about. On June 18 and 19, I'll be teaching an Open Read More...
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Bogota Open XML workshop
13 May 07 08:56 PM
Friday afternoon we finished up the workshop in Bogota, Colombia. This one was essentially a train-the-trainer event, since we had 3rd-party trainers and Microsoft people attending from several countries (Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia) and many Read More...
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Open XML links for 05-09-2007
09 May 07 07:58 AM
The OpenXmlCommunity.org site has come online, listing supporters of Open XML. Brian Jones has the details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/05/08/openxml-community-growing.aspx David Carlisle has a post on how Open XML equations and Read More...
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Santiago workshop and many others
08 May 07 01:56 PM
We just finished the Open XML developer workshop here in Santiago. Another chance to meet some interesting people and discuss the ways they're planning to use the Open XML file formats in their work. Thanks to everyone involved for getting this one put Read More...
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Sao Paulo Open XML Workshop
06 May 07 09:10 AM
We had some interesting people at the Brazil workshop, including students, software developers, members of local technical committees, and others. Yesterday morning we flew from Sao Paulo to Santiago, Chile, where we'll be doing a workshop on Monday and Read More...
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