Archives
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Reading XML
Don’t miss Dare’s new post on the different flavors for reading XML. I am looking forward to his article on the XPathReader to be posted at the XML Developer Center in the near future.
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Getting into shape
Last week I was teaching a VB.NET class at Interface, and a student in the class took my classic illustration of abstraction and polymorphism to the next level. I always like using ‘shape’ as an abstract example, where ‘draw’ is an abstract method. I ask the question “If you create a ‘shape’ with a ‘draw’ method… what will the shape look like?” Of course, shape is too abstract to know the answer.
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Using XPath on HTML
Just read another post by Dare with the XML team at Microsoft. My big question: Does this require the underlying HTML to actually be XHTML?
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Of things data and XML...
Recently, Scott Cate and I began architecting enhancements to kbAlertz and other sites. I can see so much potential for XML technologies in every layer of the application. I am looking forward to the new XML features in SQL Server 2005, such as the XML data type mentioned in Dare’s recent blog.
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OOP?
I always find it interesting to share OOP concepts with developers that are brand new to the concepts.
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This week, VB.NET
From Seattle to Phoenix to Albuquerque... Tomorrow I am training a group of 16 people on how to use VB.NET.
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So, the MVP Summit 2004
So what can I say? Everything was under NDA.
So I did walk away from this experience with at least one public comment/question... Has anyone else observed that most Microsoft employees begin sentences with the word “so”? Must have rubbed off on me (thus the start of this blog). So if this persists (with me) I am putting the primary blame on Rob Howard. His likely response? So what!