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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

If you happen to work in the Financial Services industry and haven’t checked out the 3rd Annual XML for Financial Services conference, I’d humbly suggest that you may want to check it out.  It will be held January 26-28, 2004, in New York City.  And if you happen to actually attend the conference, then hopefully you will also sign up for the ...