2007-09-04 13:55 Dumbing Down OpenXML Quandry
Unless you ve been under a rock you are aware of Microsoft s attempts to certify their Open XML implementation as an ISO standard. On the face of it, its hard to understand why this issue could raise so many conversations and threads over the web so allow me to dumb down the case for you and explain what all the acronyms stand for. Most people know what BBB in USA is and what it claims to be. BBB or Better Business Bureau claims to be an organization that rewards and punishes businesses based on …
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2007-09-01 06:54 Inverting Assumptions
tags: austin tx waaa waaa2007 weareallactors technology dataformats opendoc xhtml2 w3c microformats inverting assumptions etech principles Years of formal professional experience with developing data formats (from when I started on OpenDoc at Apple in 1992, to working on XHTML2 in the W3C) taught me a lot about what worked and what didn't. By analyzing my personal experiences and data format efforts out there in the wild I discovered a number of commonly shared implicit assumptions. With additio …
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2007-08-20 16:15 Scripting News for 8/20/07
Podcast: Open identity in 2007 On Saturday, after reading Brad Fitzpatrick's piece about Social Graphs, I did a podcast explaining why it's not likely that existing networks will allow users from other networks to use their services. Here's the 1/2 hour podcast. Dan Farber asked me to summarize, I suppose that's all right. I don't do many podcasts these days. I did this one because I want people to listen. These are relatively complex economic and political issues, and simple thinking won't yi …
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2007-07-29 15:45 The erratic non-progress of the personal information manager
The Personal Information Manager (PIM) has had a difficult 24 years, since Borland's "Sidekick" more or less launched the genre. We're coming up on the 25th anniversary of Sidekick, and I think it's fair to say a geek of 1983 would be shocked by how little progress we've made. The iPhone has no tasks. What more can I say The PIM has been a longstanding interest of mine. At various times in my life I've had a pre-web listserv dedicated to the personal information manager, a now-defunct blog dedic …
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2007-07-24 02:28 Coin-operated, User Experienced
Greg Maletic's film " Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball " is, like many of its peers in this recent golden age of documentary films, a temporary detour into what might have otherwise been - and what may yet be again - overlooked subject matter. It's highly entertaining, completely engrossing and beautifully made, but you'd be forgiven for not expecting much in the way of day-to-day practicality. As it turns out though, it provides a surprising amount of tangible relevance for those of us working …
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2007-07-06 17:08 Five Lesser-Known Tips on Being an Apple Fanboy
Obsessing over all things Apple used to be a lonely place. Through the 1990s, in the "No Steve Era", there was a seemingly small group that would discuss the benefits of CyberDog and OpenDoc, run Kaleidoscope themes to show the futuristic Copland interface, engage in live IRC chats during Apple earnings calls, boot the BeOS on our Macs off Zip disks and seek out the Apple logo in TV shows and movies, trading e-mails when we spotted one. But in the last decade, the Apple world has changed, and we …
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2007-05-13 17:24 I m An Ubuntu Convert
A while back I wrote a series of posts on Shooting the Kids about how we moved my mom over to Ubuntu and how she really took to it. She's still using it regularly, though her main desktop is now my old Mac Mini - which she really loves because of iTunes. But here at the Frazier household, we've finally converted all of our computers to Ubuntu and we couldn't be happier. My wife just purchased a new Nikon dSLR and it was wonderful knowing that we'd have great RAW support without having to pay an …
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2007-05-06 19:07 Uncle Jens's Coding Tips
Ever since Brent "NetNewsWire" Simmons posted his Thoughts On Large Cocoa Projects the other week, I've wanted to add some of my own tips. I've worked on some big projects (iChat, Apple's Java runtime, OpenDoc) and have sometimes had to find my way around in others (Safari, Mail), so I know what Brent means when he says: There's no way I can remember, with any level of detail, how every part of [my app] works. I call it the Research Barrier, when an app is big enough that the developer sometimes …
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2006-12-09 10:00 The threat of OO.o OpenXML support, take two
Last time I wrote that the threats presented by Novell's OpenXML support plugin for OO.o don't outweigh the benefits of having such support. Even broken and partial support is still better than nothing because it enables companies to do a one-off conversion, with a manual pass if need be, to migrate away from MS Office. And it lets individuals, and companies which aren't ready yet for that migration, read evil OpenXML documents sent by other companies (or your government, in some cases). Of cour …
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2006-12-05 18:14 A "Fork" of OpenOffice.org What the hell
Groklaw is running a story with the heading, 'Novell "Forking" OpenOffice.org'. PJ writes, There will be a Novell edition of OpenOffice.org and it will support Microsoft OpenXML. Except that, reading the article and comments and other sources such as Miguel de Icaza's post on the subject, there doesn't seem to be a fork. Not in any conventional sense of the word. Instead there is (or will be) an OO.o plugin that adds OpenXML support. The plugin has a BSD-style license, and if it requires changes …
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