Dare’s weblog has some comments about his ?best practices for using XML in the .NET Framework?. This has been a topic of conversation internally for awhile, and hopefully the story will get a lot better in V2. I think the guidelines Dare gives are really the best we could do in V1. On a personal […]
Clay is getting defensive about the responses to his criticism of RELATIONSHIP. While I actually agree with Clay about the futility of ontology for expressing relationships, I am awed at how he completely snows us with intellectualism and dances around the issue without admitting that his original criticism was flawed. It’s an indignant cry of […]
We are currently watching Dr. Nancy Hopkins talk about the problems of gender discrimination in the sciences. She’s relating her experiences with the groundbreaking M.I.T. report on Women in Sciences. It’s really interesting to see how the women scientists at M.I.T. attacked the issue — with research, and 150pp of objectively measured facts. This approach […]
Seattle has terrible traffic congestion, and a long tradition of debates about how to fix it. Unfortunately, little ever seems to get done, and a series of fiscal management scandals with previous tax levies has left voters with little visible progress and little trust that any future tax increases will be used appropriately. So things […]
I’ve responded here in the past to criticisms of InfoPath v1 functionality, encouraging people to “just wait a little bit longer”. Now the time has come, and as Aaron Skonnard reports, the new InfoPath update has added even more functionality than I expected, including integration with C#.