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domenica 30 marzo 2003

Another long article on InoPath from Jon Udell: First look at InfoPath.   The next version of Microsoft Office is, among other things, a family of XML editors. I have discussed the XML modes of Word and Excel (see XML for the rest of us and "Exploring XML in Office 11"), and described the newest member of this family, InfoPath 2003, a tool for gathering XML data (see "Ten things to know about Xdocs"). Now that I've had a chance to work with InfoPath, its role and value are becoming clearer. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] [Jon's Radio] 4:00:24 PM      comment []

giovedì 27 marzo 2003

Jon Udell: heads, decks and lead: The newspaper editor's mantra is "heads, decks, and leads" -- in other words, headlines, summaries, and introductory paragraphs. These devices are, in fact, tools for managing a scarce and precious resource: the reader's attentionPublishing a project weblog.  [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 10:38:37 PM      comment []

mercoledì 26 marzo 2003

What is a Software Architect? A software architect is someone who knows how to put together a system that satisfies the fundamental requirements of its stakeholders. Foundations of Software Achitecture.  [kuro5hin.org] 10:36:08 PM      comment []

mercoledì 19 marzo 2003

Absolutely nothing to add. It's simply about power. It's simply about power. I keep reading comments on the upcoming war. It's about oil. It's about freedom. It's about terror. It's about a nasty dictator. It's about business. It's going to be easy to win. Unfortunately I'm now convinced that it's somehow much simpler than that. It's about power. And about lack of power. The U.S. feel that they can establish a new kind of imperialism to the world and that all existing international organizations, leftovers from the last century, are not needed anymore (if not to clean things up once they're done). Only Europe, as a friend od the US, could have opposed this imperialism. But we failed. Right after September 11 the US were leading the largest coalition of countries ever seen. Now, whatever the US administration is saying, they are going to a war alone. Even in the countries officially supporting this war (Italy is one of them), very large majorities of the population are strongly against it. There's something terribly wrong about all this. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] [Curiouser and curiouser!] 10:50:46 PM      comment []

martedì 18 marzo 2003

Tim Bray and Adam Bosworth on the shortcomings of XML [Slashdot]   3:30:11 PM      comment []

domenica 16 marzo 2003

Mono is worth watching. Here's the rss. Whither Mono?. A healthy software ecosystem has to create niches where commercial and open-source projects can thrive. Java does that, but is neither an open standard nor a first-class citizen of the Windows platform. The Common Language Infrastructure is, at least in theory, both. Whether theory will become practice is an important question that makes Project Mono worth watching. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 12:21:53 PM      comment []

lunedì 3 marzo 2003

Mainstreaming Zope. [Jon's Radio (full-length descriptions)] 5:48:57 PM      comment []

sabato 1 marzo 2003

I would like to carve these Tim Bray's word in stone: [speaking of MS Word] Of course, if you're working on something with significant intellectual content that you might want to reuse, and whose life might be comparable to yours, you'd be nuts to lock that content up in any fragile, proprietary, binary, short-lived word-processor file format. That's what XML is for.   10:31:14 PM      comment [] Security embarrassment. [Computerworld] 10:58:09 AM      comment []

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