Don Xml's Grok This

Chip is wondering if the New Jersey developer community would be interested in a user group focused on building User Interfaces using the various Microsoft tools/technologies.  Chip has been looking to start up a user group, but like a lot of us, his interests vary widely, and he wants to make sure that there would be enough interest, and ...

Microsoft recently release the first public beta of their Expression Interactive Design tool (aka Sparkle), and I finally can get a chance to play with it and publicly talk about it.  The most important thing to remember with this tool is that it is not geared towards the developer.  The code name Cider product is the analogous tool on ...

One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout.  Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made in the .Net camp to oust the Table camp and replace them with the CSS Camp.  There ...

First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic.  I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided to cut them some slack (it is based on Creature House Expression, which MSFT bought in 2003).  I ...

Hmm, just heard about this news.   Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML?  Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each other.  Some Macromedia employees have been known to slam SVG (although ...