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Being Heard: A Reasonable Man Speaks Out

In just a couple of hours, I'll be on a call with my fellow members of INCITS V1, the technical...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/05/2008

Failed Precondition

I'm back in the office for the first time since the BRM, and I wanted to take a look at the various...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/04/2008

DIS29500 BRM: the final day

Today is the last day of the DIS29500 BRM, and I've just arrived at the convention center. It's been...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/29/2008

Relaxing in Geneva

After another long day, a massage, a meal, and a walk, I'm going to sleep like a ton of bricks....

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/27/2008

That BRM rumor you've heard? It's true

Yes indeed, I'm wearing a suit every day ...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/26/2008

More Geneva Photos

I didn't get out to CERN after all (they're closed on Sunday, and I didn't think it was worth a vist...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/24/2008

Patrick Durusau speaks out again. I'm glad to see that Patrick Durusau is continuing to share...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/20/2008

Binary documentation and translator project. On Friday Brian Jones covered the availability of the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/18/2008

PHPExcel 1.6.0 goes into production

Maarten Balliauw has a Valentine's Day gift to the PHP community: the production release of PHPExcel...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/14/2008

DOCX support from down under

Sydney's Aspose Pty Ltd, a developer/publisher of developer components for the .NET and Java...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/13/2008

Erika's Office Devcon overview. My brief mention of Office Devcon over the weekend was light on the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/11/2008

Video discussion with Brian Jones

I had a chance last week to talk to Brian Jones about the proposed dispositions to the DIS 29500...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/08/2008

Experts speak out on document formats

A couple of interesting posts today by two of the most experienced people I know in the world of...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/07/2008

Indexing DOCX files with Lucene in PHP. Maarten Balliauw has another great post on working with Open...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/04/2008

Another busy day for me, with very little time for blogging, but there's so much going on in the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/31/2008

The Silver Bullet of Harmonization

My friend and colleague Jasper Bojsen has written an interesting post on a tactic some are using to...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/30/2008

Open XML and XSLT with XMLSpy. Alex Falk has a great post on how to create a simple XSLT that...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/30/2008

TechDays 2008. TechDays 2008 is coming soon to Ghent, and Gill Cleeren has the details. I enjoyed...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/25/2008

Reading Reed. my colleague Reed Shaffner has started blogging. This should be fun. Reed is the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/24/2008

Welcome to the party, IBM!

I learned this afternoon from Gray Knowlton, that a commenter on Brian's blog had linked to a couple...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/18/2008

Google's support for the Open XML formats continues to improve. They recently started identifying...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/18/2008

Binary documentation and translator project

Brian Jones has some good news today for developers who want to work with both the binary Office...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/16/2008

"Breaking news" on NOOOXML.org

Apparently the lack of IPR issues around Open XML (Oliver and Jason have recent coverage of this...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/12/2008

I've been pretty busy since the holidays, and consequently haven't got around to posting links to...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/11/2008

Open XML in Japan

Open XML Book. Yoko Girier of Toshiba has written a book that provides an overview of the Open XML...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/08/2008

Merry Christmas!

Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I hope you have a relaxing holiday season this week. While...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/24/2007

A stocking stuffer from TC45

Ecma TC45 has uploaded to their web site proposed dispositions for 2298 of the 3522 total DIS 29500...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/21/2007

Document Science CTO on Office and Open XML. My good friend Warren Wilbee recently interviewed Dr....

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/20/2007

Symbian support for DOCX/XLSX

Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is the first mobile productivity software suite to support Office 2007 file...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/20/2007

World of confusion

Rick Jelliffe's "World of Confusion" blog post about his impressions at an all-day seminar on the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/18/2007

New blog: Gray Matter

People often ask me how much smaller Open XML documents are than corresponding Office binary...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/18/2007

Where's Wouter?

I've been wondering lately, "what's up with Wouter?" He was so active blogging about Open XML in the...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/15/2007

The last week has seen some interesting discussions and useful how-to posts on Open XML blogs ......

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/13/2007

Ecma project editor passes the 50% mark

As Ecma announced today, the project editor (Rex Jaeschke) now has proposed dispositions for over...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/12/2007

Linq to XML code samples

Well, that didn't take long: Eric White has already posted a series of blog posts on using Linq to...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/11/2007

New member of the Open XML team: Eric White

I recently mentioned that I've moved to a new role in the Office organization, and now that my...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/06/2007

XML 2007 Conference

Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all sides of the document format...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/27/2007

Open XML Portfolio Manager

An open-source demo application on Codeplex shows how a Java application can generate Open XML...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/16/2007

Office Developer Conference 2008. It's time once again for an Office Devcon, and this time it will...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/16/2007

There has been quite a bit of Open XML discussion in the blogosphere recently, and I've not posted...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/04/2007

What do you save as?

Some interesting anecdotes and attitudes in a thread on Slashdot that started yesterday afternoon...

Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/19/2007

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