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Friday, June 05, 2009 1:10 AM

Lots of Stonehenge News: Initial release, Sun contribution, JavaOne keynote

There’s lots of news about Apache Stonehenge today. First, the effort passed a significant milestone – its first release from the Apache incubator. This means that the code was updated to use the Apache license headers, the source control and build environment
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Monday, November 24, 2008 5:09 PM

Microsoft and the Apache Stonehenge Project

Several of us at Microsoft have signed up to actively participate in the Apache Stonehenge Project that was accepted into the incubator recently. This is only the latest in a number of open source interoperability projects in which Microsoft is active.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:25 PM

Web Services Standards and .NET Interoperability

Successive versions of the .NET framework closely track the evolution of the WS-* specs as they progress from publication, to submissions to W3C or OASIS, and ultimately as W3C Recommendations or OASIS Standards. See for example the list of supported
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:10 PM

WS-Bandwagon or WS-JustRight?

My previous post used WS-Management to illustrate the larger point that "the WS technologies are taking hold, deep down in the infrastructure, doing the mundane but mission critical work for which they were designed." Perhaps because WS-Management is
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Monday, May 21, 2007 11:24 AM

WS-* and the Hype Cycle

There's a persistent theme talked up by WS-*ophobes that it's all just a fad , rapidly sliding down toward the "Trough of Dilillusionment" in the Gartner Hype Cycle . I've come to the opposite conclusion after six weeks back in the web services world.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:23 AM

The Secret of LINQ Design

A team within Microsoft ran an "app week" recently to build applications that implement customer scenarios using a variety of LINQ technologies. The feedback on LINQ to XML was uniformly positive. The participants were not XML geeks, but more like our
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:49 PM

Accelerating Evolution: LINQ News from Mix 2007

There is a lot of interesting (and once confidential) stuff that came out of the Mix conference this week. Jon Udell's " Watching Anders Hejlsberg reinvent the relationship between programs and data" ... offers an enthusiastic summary: A lot of the time,
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:37 PM

Reporting for duty on WS-Deathstar

After an enjoyable and extremely educational 2 1/2 years on the core XML team in SQL Data Programmability at Microsoft, I've moved to a position in the Connected Systems Division's Interoperability unit. Responsibilities include representing Microsoft
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Friday, January 12, 2007 3:37 PM

Convergence Zones

I had a lot of time to think about Elliotte Harold's call for XML predictions on the way home from Redmond Wednesday night. We got several inches of snow, which is rare here and the highway folks just can't deal with . There were massive traffic tieups,
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:27 PM

Since Don put me up to it ....

I don't really want to perpetuate the 5 things meme, but DonXML asked nicely (and I'll take the opportunity to shamelessly plug some favorite people, products, and organizations): I came to the software industry rather late in life after a mis-spent youth
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:08 AM

The JSON vs XML debate begins in earnest

After seeing Douglas Crockford's talk on JSON at XML 2006 recently, I figured that some sort of great debate between XML and JSON advocates was brewing. I had been waiting for Elliotte Harold's rebuttal of what Crockford is missing, but haven't seen it
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:28 PM

Potential at the Trailing Edge

Lots of people linked to the happy news last week that Jon Udell was joining Microsoft , so I didn't bother. I have previously recommended his great interview with Anders Hejlsberg . This is a clear, concise, hands-on demonstration of LINQ (including
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 8:02 PM

The Model T and the Prius: Simplicity vs Complexity, yet again

My favorite conundrum, the difficulty of being simple , pops up everywhere I look these days. OpenXML document format vs the Open Document Format Point: OpenXML is so complex no one else can implement it . Counterpoint: Its complexity is due to the existing
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Friday, December 08, 2006 1:48 AM

XML 2006 Observations

I could only attend half the conference due to a family health issue, but here are some thoughts on what I did see. The links are mainly to the conference program; I believe the entries will eventually link to the actual presentation slides and submitted
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Monday, November 13, 2006 12:48 AM

Rough Spots in the LINQ to XML Learning Curve

[minor editorial updates 11/13] We've been doing some formal usability testing on all the LINQ components over the last couple of months and have learned a lot about what people find challenging. The results have generally validated LINQ's story as a
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