February 2008 - Posts

DIS29500 BRM: the final day
28 February 08 11:01 PM
Today is the last day of the DIS29500 BRM, and I've just arrived at the convention center. It's been a long week, and a great experience for me; I'm looking forward to talking about it a bit more in the future. I've learned a lot, heard many interesting Read More...
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Relaxing in Geneva
27 February 08 02:19 PM
After another long day, a massage, a meal, and a walk, I'm going to sleep like a ton of bricks. Tonight I think I can get in six straight hours. Whee ... zzzzzz. Read More...
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That BRM rumor you've heard? It's true
26 February 08 12:32 PM
Yes indeed, I'm wearing a suit every day ... Read More...
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More Geneva Photos
24 February 08 10:38 AM
I didn't get out to CERN after all (they're closed on Sunday, and I didn't think it was worth a vist to snap a picture from outside the fence), but it was a beautiful day in Geneva today and I took a walk around town and snapped a few hundred pictures. Read More...
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Geneva photos
22 February 08 06:51 PM
I said in my last post that I'd try to post some photos from Geneva, and here are a few so far. I'm here for the weekend, so I'll post some more on Sunday as well; I'm hoping to get out to CERN to shoot the Moiree Globe at the birthplace of the internet, Read More...
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Open XML links for 02-20-2008
20 February 08 11:45 AM
Patrick Durusau speaks out again. I'm glad to see that Patrick Durusau is continuing to share publicly his thoughts on document formats. His latest post is on the topic of Co-Evolving OpenXML and OpenDocument Format , and Gray Knowlton has some interesting Read More...
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Open XML links for 02-18-2008
18 February 08 09:11 AM
Binary documentation and translator project. On Friday Brian Jones covered the availability of the Office binary formats documentation as a free download, as well as the new Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) Translator to Open XML . Brian also announced availability Read More...
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PHPExcel 1.6.0 goes into production
14 February 08 10:13 AM
Maarten Balliauw has a Valentine's Day gift to the PHP community: the production release of PHPExcel 1.6.0 is available today. This release of the PHP library for SpreadsheetML documents includes an improved calculation engine as well as support for named Read More...
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DOCX support from down under
13 February 08 04:45 AM
Sydney's Aspose Pty Ltd , a developer/publisher of developer components for the .NET and Java platforms, has just released Aspose.Words for .NET 5.0.0 , which includes support for reading and writing Open XML word-processing documents. An eval version Read More...
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Open XML links for 02-11-2008
11 February 08 06:11 PM
Erika's Office Devcon overview. My brief mention of Office Devcon over the weekend was light on the details, but the ever-thorough Erika Ehrli has all the details, including session times, Open XML booth schedule, and news about the new Open XML developer Read More...
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Office Devcon and Open XML
08 February 08 08:43 PM
Office Devcon starts this weekend in San Jose, and I'm really disappointed I won't be able to be there this year. I'll miss Bill Gates's keynote, all the great sessions on Office developer technologies, the OBA of the Year contest winner, and a chance Read More...
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Video discussion with Brian Jones
07 February 08 11:43 PM
I had a chance last week to talk to Brian Jones about the proposed dispositions to the DIS 29500 comments. We discussed the thinking behind a few typical dispositions as well as the business case for custom XML support and other Open XML topics. The video Read More...
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Experts speak out on document formats
06 February 08 11:14 PM
A couple of interesting posts today by two of the most experienced people I know in the world of document formats ... First, I see that my buddy Dennis Hamilton ( photo ) has a new post on document formats and the harmonization hope chest . As always, Read More...
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Respect for open standards? You decide
06 February 08 07:41 AM
I was a bit surprised to see the news recently that Open Forum Europe is working with some large US-based technology vendors to put on an event in the same building as the upcoming BRM for DIS 29500, on the same dates as the BRM . An anti-BRM, if you Read More...
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Open XML links for 02-04-2008
04 February 08 09:25 AM
Indexing DOCX files with Lucene in PHP. Maarten Balliauw has another great post on working with Open XML from PHP. This time he takes a look at how to use the Zend framework's PHP port of the Lucene indexing and search API. As always, Maarten provides Read More...
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