Don Xml's Grok This

If you are one of my regular readers, you know that I’m a senior .Net consultant out of New Jersey, and don’t do the traveling thing.  I’m sort of in between career plateaus, and trying to migrate from the 40 hours a week at one client style of consulting to having more then one client style.  If you know of someone ...

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 ...

I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow).  The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as must see speakers, and checking out what/when they are presenting.  Once I have the ...

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 ...

With the announcement the end of last week that Microsoft is decoupling Avalon from Longhorn and will make it backward compatible with WinXP and Win2k3 Server, I’m sure there are some out there that wonder what my take on it.  First off, let’s get this straight, XAML does not equal Avalon.  Yes you can use XAML to wire up ...

Kurt Cagle dropped out of site for a while, but is back, and now has a real blog on BlogSpot, along with an Atom feed (after I prodded him to turn it on).  He will be blogging from the SVG Open conference in Japan, and will be presenting (and blogging, I’m sure) at Xml DevCon.  Since I’ll be at DevCon too, I will finally get ...

The position papers for The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents are now available for you viewing pleasure.  I love this topic (rendering multi-namespace documents), but I can not attend this workshop, but I will be watching it closely.  I’m glad to see that friends and others that I have lots of respect for ...

The W3C is sponsoring a workshop on Web Apps and Compound Docs in San Jose, June 1st & 2nd. From the web site: Position papers submitted for this workshop topic should address at least some of the following questions: What functionality is needed for Web applications? What should a hosting environment provide? How much of a Web ...

Kevin Lindsey has had a blog for some time now, but has recently seen the beauty that is RSS.  What, you don’t know who Kevin is?  Well, he was one of the main forces behind the SharpVectors project, and has been developing very cool SVG tutorials and various SVG experiments (like the SVG-GUI widgets) for what seems like ...