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February 2004 - Posts

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  Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

  If you are a programmer, and you haven’t read this article , drop what you are doing and read it now. (via Early Adopter , by way of Chris Anderson ). My favorite points: Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that Read More... Posted Friday, February 27, 2004 8:51 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Metadata: The Secret Sauce

  Why is "Business Logic" an Oxymoron? By Jason Bloomberg (via Udi Dahan ). A nice article questioning where the business logic is hidden, and how Service Oriented computing (leveraging Service Oriented Architectures – SOA) should help resolve these Read More... Posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:14 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Waking Up From a DOM Induced Coma

  I couldn’t really decide on a title for this post. Originally it was going to be “A Guide to the XML Parser API Wars”, but I thought that might be a little too negative. I was looking for something that would catch the average reader’s Read More... Posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:42 AM by donxml | 6 Comments

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  Adobe XML/PDF Form Designer Beta

  I haven’t seen this posted anywhere else, and I found out about it via a email sent to one of my old accounts that I’ve never used for my other Adobe stuff, so I guess I can talk about it. It looks like Adobe is looking for folks to beta test Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:29 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  Virtual PC + Seagate 160GB Firewire/USB Drive = Heaven

  On Friday, Scott Hanselman posted a list of tips on optimizing Virtual PC performance that originally came from J. Sawyer at Microsoft, and the main take away I got from it was that I should be running my VPC Hard Disks on a separate physical drive from Read More... Posted Monday, February 23, 2004 7:11 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Definitely NOT the Way to Advertise FrontPage 2003

  This comes via - Mike (aka Pshaggs) on GotDotNet Check out this ad for FrontPage 2003 that is on Jonathan Goodyear ’s site and look for the error in the HTML code. And this from a tool that is advertising that they cleaned up their act, and help Read More... Posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 12:34 PM by donxml | 7 Comments

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  Avalon Developers – Meet Mordy Golding

  Until recently Mordy Golding was the Program Manager for Adobe Illustrator, but has recently left the company and is now back on the East Coast working as an independent consultant. Since most of us Avalon developers are using Illustrator to create our Read More... Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 6:48 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), SVG
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  NJ Dev Dinner

  ScottW and I are going to kick off New Jersey’s version of the Portland Nerd Dinner on February 19 th at 6:30PM at the Harvest Moon Brewery in New Brunswick, and anyone that wants to show up, just let one of us know (all are welcome, we are just Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:25 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

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  Object Constraint Language, XML Schema, and WS-Policy?

  Just got done reading Aaron Skonnard’s March 2004 MSDN Mag article, WS-Policy and WSE 2.0 Assertion Handlers , (sorry no link yet) and noticed that it is very similar to the ideas I had about adding OCL to XML Schema to implement business rules Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:03 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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