When you run the same process over a few years, its particular shortcomings emerge and can dominate: for example, Joel Spolsky claimed that MicroSoft had an economic criterion for fixing bugs, so that they only fix a bug if it...

Paul Sobocinski explains how to start using XForms now by showing PHP code that will convert from XHTML to XForms and back to XHTML.

What do you call a program that gets loaded in surreptitiously and without your approval, has the potential to lock down your computer so you can't get access to it, takes up significant system resources and promptly crashes upon running. Normally, I'd call it a virus, except for the last part ... viruses are usually stable (and well written) once they start. On the other hand, it's a perfect description of Internet Explorer 7.0.

Now *THIS* is the kind of social networking I can proudly take part in, NOTE: Yes, I realize this is like two weeks old, but I haven't seen any follow-ups that suggest the case has been solved, so I figured...

Update: Something just occurred to me. As far as I can tell, it has taken longer to finish the development of the XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery specs than it has to finish the development of Windows Vista. In...

As part of my ongoing research into social networks, I sign up at pretty much every site I come across. Today, I came across Gazzag.com. As part of the sign up process, they offered to import all my contacts from...

Proof that there is somebody from above (with some pull) that still cares about the REST (< sorry ;) of us down here below. REST Web Services What we are doing We want to restore the World Wide Web to...

The IE7 auto-upgrade gave Microsoft had a chance to gain back a lot of people that it has lost in the last few years - wow them with something spectacular, send the user to a page that would put the browser through its paces and show off the positive points, get past the "We are Microsoft and we know better than you do what you want." attitude and make people wonder if maybe they were wrong about Firefox after all. They blew it.

via a recent post to the IronPython mailing list, one of my all time favorite hackers and close personal friend Sylvain Hellegouarch announced, [IronPython] ANN: bridge 0.1.0 a general Python and IronPython XML library Hi all, I'm happy to introduce...

Step One: Check to make sure that the .odt isn't just an .sxw in disguise, What's the problem with Google Docs? - ODF Converter Team Blog During this "real life" tests, we noticed that all the files created with the...

In follow-up to yesterdays "bridge" announcement, Sylvain Hellegouarch has both updated and released the next version of Amplee, an Atom Publishing Protcol implementation, using bridge to enable compatibility with a variety of XML document types, including System.Xml-based document types. From...

Micah Dubinko takes aim at the legion of annoyances caused by XML namespaces.

Nobody learns if nothing is brok3n: Dropping the addiction that is irc Eventually I switched to linux and started delving into linux channels. The most important thing I learned from a linux channel is that if someone doesn't know what...

Sylvain just pinged me to say he had left a comment on my recent "IRC'aholic" post. I refreshed the page expecting to see his comment, but no luck. I checked my email to see if the system had marked it...

JavaScript also has its foot in both the Algol based languages such as Java, C++ and Smalltalk, and the Lisp like declarative languages including Scheme, Prolog and Haskell among others. Not surprisingly, this means that parsing out JavaScript objects in other languages is in general simpler than just about any other representation. This idea lies at the heart of the JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON: Provide a basic syntax for serializing JavaScript objects that can in turn be used transmitted elsewhere and parsed back into JavaScript objects on another platform. Given the ubiquity of JavaScript within web clients (and the rise of XMLHttpRequest pipes) this strategy is actually quite effective ... and provides an alternative to XML in a number of cases.

Four little letters... LLUP --- Life after email As a social phenomenon, the end of email has been widely reported. The next generation doesn't use it. As a technical phenomenon, spam is a persistent threat. Spam's been a lot worse...