Eric Lippert and Neil Deakin are discussing sucky software. Both make the point that one gets more tolerant of suckage in software when one has spent enough time actually trying to do software
“I failed to appreciate either of those facts until I’d actually done a lot of it myself. Once I appreciated these things, I [...]
Strangeness abounds. We are accused of smearing binary XML andpushingbinary XML in the same week, in both cases withinsinuation ofnefarious motive. Dare Obasanjo has the report.
Mike Deem has been keeping up his blog again, and it’s really good. I’ve hesitated mentioning it, since last time I got hooked on his blog he stopped for a [...]
Larry O’Brien at SD Times asks “Is InfoPath the Next Excel“? He raises a number of interesting points, some of which I’ll try to respond to. First, he says:
“It would be easier to say “yes†if InfoPath were programmable from .NET languages. Not so. For some reason, InfoPath’s programming model uses Microsoft Script Editor, which [...]
Simon Guest’s book on J2EE and .NET interop is available now.Amazon claims to have only five copies left in stock, so you might have to hurry up, or else try Barnes & Noble.
The Danish ISB has uploaded the schemas for Microsoft Word offered under a liberal license. Various people within MSFT, Danish government, and others worked very hard to make this happen, and it’s a very significant announcement.
The biggest news happened when Word began to support XML natively, though,and most people already had the right to [...]