Over at inessential.org, Brent plays with the ‘Give a Man a fish…’ parable. Give Scott McNealy a fish, and he’ll rant about how it’s all Microsoft’s fault. But teach Scott McNealy to fish-and he’ll rant about how it’s all Microsoft’s fault.
This came up on the XML-Dev list as well as /., but Tim Bray spent some time looking at the ‘native’ XML format MS is promising for Office 11, they are baroque, but they are XML.
Today’s Meet the Makers conference was worth the effort to get up to the City on a Monday morning. The interviews with the people behind large sites — Shiva Shivakumar of Google, and Steve Weinstein of Vicinity — were an excellent contrast in building the data for your site, or integrating several existing databases. Jeff [...]
Found a case study from a company that used the MSXML/ISAPI approach to do what I just did using Frontier/Apache/PHP/Sablotron on my last project. Their project was XML from end to end (we used XSLT to deliver pages, but not during editing) so it was good to learn that it’s feasible to do that on [...]
Between arguments on guns, Bush, and Palestine on FoRK, they found the time to disrespect Microsoft’s new web services demo — you send two numbers, and it adds them! And there’s a slap at DRM as well. > Now granted, the first version only could > add 2+2, but version 2.0 now supports > adding [...]
MS to world: All your remote methods are belong to us. Maybe not. Dave says it’s another SOAP. Then again, patents are defined so broadly these days that handing your spouse a grocery list might be an infringment.
[ via the alert Rick Keir ] Remember that free Elvis Costello CD I was so excited about last week? Turns out it’s primarily a way to goad you into installing a version of Windows Media Player (WMP) which turns on DRM. Of course, you’re free to run WMP, just don’t reformat your hard drive [...]
Interesting conversation on the XSL developer list. This started when the Microsofties on the list pooh-poohed Eliotte Rusty Harold’s new XML API for Java, XOM. Examples of .NET and C# ease-of-use were trundled out, and several readers commented on how they were akin to the desperate Perl/VB/PHP hacker trick of writing out an XML stream [...]
It’s been awhile since I linked any IIS-specific items. I found this on the XSLT listserve. It’s an ISAPI filter, based on libxml2 and libxslt, for transforming server output using XSLT on Internet Information Server. It has a couple of advantages over Microsoft’s XSLT filter (not needing write access to directories on the server, and [...]
jenett.radio set up a tracking topic on MS’s Palladium proposal.
Here’s a lession in microeconomics: Microsoft’s Palladium. It strikes me as Redmond’s next attempt to do an AT&T on computing — “Please regulate me, for I am a monopoly, I propagate viruses, and I encourage teenagers to copy Britney without paying for the privilege, but, *hem* you must forbid in law any competition.”
My Name is Bill Gates, and I own a software company. [ Flash ]
Doc links to a report that MS and IBM claim key patents over Web Services protocols. I guess HTTP isn’t dead after all.
MS’ mail agents send all kinds of stuff in winmail.dat. Use the degenerator web service to find out what they are. No need to flame innocent Outlook users anymore because of their moronic mail software. Find another reason to flame them. Nine times out of ten it’ll probably be a macro virus.
[ via MetaGrrrl ] Look out! Microsoft’s launching another media campaign to bullyrag IT departments into buying Win2K for the server side. Update: Cam reports that the ad campaign’s web site was running BSD/Apache. Let’s see how fast Microsoft changes that. Update: Flutterby reports that the wehavethewayout site was returning IIS server errors. I checked [...]