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January 2008 - Posts

Monday, January 28, 2008 1:04 PM

An Approach to Reading Specifications Quickly

In this post, I'm going to give out one of my favorite secrets - how to read specifications quickly, with a high degree of retention. I have a particular technique, and if you use this technique, you may read specs more quickly, and you will remember
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Friday, January 25, 2008 2:42 PM

Hashing of Passwords in the Open XML File Format

The Open XML specification is one of the most scrutinized specs ever to go through a standards process, and that's great news for developers because there is a lot of useful new content in the proposed dispositions of various comments. A good example
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Monday, January 21, 2008 10:09 PM

Why I Took This Job

I've been in my new job for three weeks as Technical Evangelist for Open XML. While I was pretty familiar with technical aspects of Open XML before taking this job, during these three weeks I've learned a whole lot about what is going on in the standardization
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:10 AM

How to Extract Comments from Open XML Documents

This post is based on an interesting query - a user of Open XML wanted a general way to extract the comments from Open XML documents and save them in a common metadata server. This post contains a short example that iterates through all files in a directory,
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