Archive for July, 2002

Word 11 XML

Sunday, July 14th, 2002

Jon Udell (via Brad) is talking about XML support in the upcoming version of Office. It is cool that Raikes is making some of this public, since it’s hard not to talk about it. I’ve been using Office 11 on my machine for about 6 months now (dog food is the best food), andI can […]

Brad Wilson

Sunday, July 14th, 2002

Brad Wilson was not too impressed with my homemade blog system. He’s basically saying that I sowed the seeds of my own failure by hobbling myself with inappropriate tools (XSLT and Make) and impractical constraints (static-only, portable cross-platform, no code).
He’s right, I think. It probably would be much easier to just write some code. But […]

Groove and .NET

Saturday, July 13th, 2002

Via Dave Winer, it looks like Sam Gentile has been working on Visual Studio .NET extensions for Groove. I’ve done a lot of work using VSIP, so I can appreciate what a chore it is to get managed code extensions to interact through the legacy ATL interfaces to VS.NET. I am always amazed when our […]

Making a Blog

Friday, July 12th, 2002

For anyone who has a little bit of experience with ftp and html, it seems a little strange to pay money for a tool that manages a blog. Publishing html files to a web site seems so simple. After reading the Weblog Tool Roundup(the author is a different Joshua Allen, BTW), where the author makes […]

Human Rights

Friday, July 12th, 2002

Miguel is talking about human rights, and mentions Palladium as being an example of governments not working on behalf of the people. First, Palladium is attempting to be a market solution to issues (privacy and intellectual property) that would otherwise be solved through more government regulations. Second, the universal declaration on human rights, which Miguel […]