2007-09-12 14:59 Cesar Brod, the brazilian Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza, best known for projects like Gnome, Mono, Moonlight etc, have a clone here in Brazil. Cesar Brod. Cesar Brod is already well known by the brazilian Free Software comunity for his works and all other things he'd already have done for the Free Software. He didnt only write a lot of articles about GNU/Linux and Free Software, but also participated in a debate against Microsoft. His company, Brod Tecnologia, pays services nowadays to Microsoft. Normally I wouldnt have anything again …
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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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2007-08-29 05:05 Comments in the press about the "voting" at SiS
I was thinking of collecting links to places I find writing about this: Computer Sweden - Riktigt, riktigt illa (Swedish) Computer Sweden - SIS: "Inga statister på mötet" (Swedish) Computer Sweden - Microsoftkupp mot formatomröstning (Swedish) Dagens Nyheter - Microsofts affärspartners köpte Sveriges röst (Swedish) Ny Teknik - Microsoft bakom kupp om Office-standard (Swedish) Slashdot - Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML (English) OS/2 World.Com - Microsoft buys the Swedish vote on OOXM …
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2007-08-28 20:40 Newswatch 8.28.07: More gPhone rumors ...
A phone to go with all that spectrum [CrunchGear] A HTC insider sent us a tip this weekend about an upcoming gPhone coming out of Taiwan that should launch Q1 2008. Google is currently assessing over twenty HTC models and refining its final handset design and will create a special version of Google Maps, compatible with built-in GPS, and compatibility with Gmail and the calendar app. YHOO to parents: You can text too [Toronto Star] Yahoo Inc., the most popular provider of Web-based email in the …
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2007-08-26 07:46 OpenXML votes in New Zealand
It's time to lobby again! During the last two days Standards New Zealand was hosting a meeting to discuss its position regarding Open XML .According to the current Wikipedia entry: Open XML is an XML-based file format specification for electronic documents such as memos, reports, books, spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. The specification has been developed by Microsoft as a successor of its binary office file formats and was published by Ecma International as the …
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2007-08-24 06:54 Interesting Finds: August 24, 2007
Other link blogs Matt - 24 Links Today (2007-08-23) Steve Pietrek - Links (8/23/2007) Brian Johnson - Links for 2007-08-23 [del.icio.us] Mike Gunderloy - The Daily Grind 1214 Harry Pierson - Morning Coffee 113 Career stuff How to Change the World - 7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit Web stuff IE Blog - Analyzing Web 2.0 Applications with Ajax View Dion Almaer - Best Practices in Javascript Library Design and JavaScript Object Layout Rey Bango - Creating a maintainable, unobtrusive JavaScript slides …
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2007-08-24 04:26 Generate Excel 2007 Sheets from MSCRM Data OpenXML Show
Ayaz Ahmad writes Let me introduce you the technique I have used to generate the Excel 2007 sheet from CRM data....my sample quote geneation application. I have placed a button at Quotes toolbar named Generate Quote. It will generate quote report in excel 2007 with the Quote data from crm currently selected.
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2007-08-23 22:34 IPR on Ecma Office Open XML
One of the first comments on Rod's blog related to IPR on Ecma Office Open XML . Here is a quick explanation of how we handle this.. There is a great deal of confusion on the IPR points in relation to the Ecma Office Open XML standard. We [Microsoft] have provided assurances for full or partial implementations under three different approaches (from which an implementer can select). These options include: Microsoft s Open Specification Promise (the OSP), Microsoft s Covenant (the Covenant) and …
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2007-08-23 22:07 OpenXML Debate the heat is on...
Standards New Zealand hosted the first day of feedback on Ecma Office Open XML in Wellington yesterday. Many of our customers and partners have not been able to attend this meeting which is a great shame as it s important for the whole industry but time was short. Over the last few weeks I ve spoken to many (hundreds) of people in the communities I look after for Microsoft the Developers and IT Professionals across New Zealand. The universal feedback has been that this is a good thing I work f …
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2007-08-23 01:30 Architecture Chat 14
So yet another architecture chat come and gone, small turnout today, with 5 people I believe. Had some interesting discussions none the less... So first off a brief discussion around implementing OleDb i.e. what's involved in doing it yourself, is it worth it etc. Alex James much prefers the idea of implementing an ADO.Net provider which is far easier, though obviously OleDB or ODBC provides a bridge to the past and to other technology platforms like php or ruby. There are some products (such a …
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2007-08-18 16:54 OpenXML ISO standardization and Netherlands
 Something interesting happened in Netherlands Our committee will say their decision at monday.
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2007-08-17 19:25 Microsoft Office (In)security, OpenXML and unsafe content
Today I was reading the WinInfo UPDATE by Paul Thurrot, and he came up with the following comments: The first tool, the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE), uses the file type converters that first debuted in Office 2007 to convert Office 2007 and Office 2003 binary documents to the new Open XML file formats in an isolated environment, Microsoft says. In this way, potentially unsafe Office documents can be converted into safe XML-based documents that can't succumb to the var …
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2007-08-17 10:29 Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards Effort
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is on a personal mission to crush Microsoft s Open XML standards effort. On his blog Tuesday, the Canonical executive and Ubuntu developer encouraged members of the global open source community to reach out to their respective International Standards Organization (ANSI in the U.S.) and push for a single document format standard: OpenDocument Format (ODF). He said South Africa and the United States have stated that they will vote against a second standard, the dea …
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2007-08-17 00:00 Links for 2007-08-16 [del.icio.us]
YUI Theater Shawn Henry: œWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines Update » Yahoo! User Interface Blog molly.com » Web Standards Situation Solutions Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : What crisis One day, people from nice homes may forsake XHTML for HTML 5, making us wonder what that XHTML pony ride was all about anyway. Or not. If HTML 5 bombs, we re not so badly off with the markup specifications we have. The worst practices of the mobile web. | dev.mobi OpenXML Developer : Open XML Developer Workshop c …
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2007-08-15 20:32 Why there s no œMicrosoft in Open XML
Here are a couple cool screenshots from Stephen McGibbon where he shows an OpenXML spreadsheet file created with Gnumeric (runs on Linux & Windows), and the file is then opened up in Numbers (Apple's new spreadsheet app for the Mac). Gnumeric Numbers This is pretty cool as it shows how the Open XML formats allow you to communicate across multiple platforms without ever even using Microsoft technology. Of course we hope you still want to use Microsoft technology, but for reasons other than file f …
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2007-08-15 11:08 Google and Sun release StarOffice in Google Pack
The New York Times shouts " Google goes after Microsoft again " by distributing Sun's StarOffice for free in Google Pack. Mary Jo Foley says " At long last, it looks like Microsoft Office, with its 90+ percent market share, may get some serious competition." Dan Farber at ZDNet has a more balanced reaction saying "Over a decade, OpenOffice/StarOffice has not challenged Microsoft s supremacy, and a free, unsupported version from Google won t have much impact." What has changed Star Office has …
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2007-08-14 10:35 Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard
It's too early to say for certain, but there are very encouraging signs that the world's standards bodies will vote in favour of a single unified ISO ("International Standards Organisation") document format standard. There is already one document format standard - ODF, and currently the ISO is considering a proposal to bless an alternative, Microsoft's OpenXML, as another standard. In the latest developments, standards committees in South Africa and the United States have both said they will vot …
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2007-08-11 13:33 Reaching the limits
I would have loved to replace this title by something like "Pushing the limits", but that would not have been very honnest... Indeed we sometimes reach the limit of both document formats we are working with: OpenDocument and OpenXML. I don't intend to compare the pros and cons of each of them in details here (I think there are people on the "blogosphere" that do it much better than I would ;-), but just give two examples to illustrate that both formats are just not perfect. I mean, a perfect for …
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2007-08-11 13:33 Launching of 0.3-M1 release
Last week we released version 0.3-M1 of the converter. What do those numbers mean 0.3 means that we are now working mainly on the reverse conversion (from DOCX to ODT); the direct conversion will still continue to be improved, but it will be far less visible than during the previous months (we fixed a lot of bugs since the last release, though - the number of open bugs on SourceForge dropped from more than 100 to less than 50 at the time of the release) M1 stands for "Milestone 1" and correspond …
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2007-08-11 13:33 Open XML and extensibility
MS Workshop on Open XML During the last few days, I was invited to participate in a workshop about Open XML targetted at developers. It took place in Microsoft Technology Center in Paris and was organized by Guillaume Renaud (from Microsoft France), Doug Mahugh (Office 2007 Technical "Evangelist", coming from Microsoft Corp.) and Wouter van Vugt (from InfoSupport ). They kindly proposed me to present the ODF Converter project, what I was happy to do. Being at the technology center on wednesday a …
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2007-08-11 13:33 Word doesn't like automatic styles...
Since the opening of this blog, there were only a few posts explaining how we actually do the transformation and the issues we face day after day... So today I will explain one of the tricky things we had to implement - I hope that it will convince you that we are also doing technical stuffs ! ;-) I already mentioned that OpenDocument and OpenXml had a very different way of handling formatting properties: while OpenDocument uses "automatic styles" (that means: for every single formatting propert …
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2007-08-10 14:45 Open XML in the real world
The latest list I've seen of applications and utilities supporting Open XML is increasingly impressive - and demonstrates its cross-platform nature (contrary to what some critics have suggested). If you have any doubts about how ubiquitious these standardised XML formats are becoming, take a look at this: OpenOffice on Linux Novell enables Linux users to read and write Open XML documents in the OpenOffice.org application. The Novell solution is available today in multiple European and Asian lang …
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2007-08-10 07:01 A few interesting links
Sorry for just posting links the past week or so. I haven't had much time to pull anything new together. Hopefully I'll have some more free time when I get back into the office next week. Can anyone be objective about Open XML Great blog entry from Kyle McNabb of Forester where he drills into the real motivations behind some of the anti-OpenXML pressures you're seeing out there. He asks folks to see through the motivations of specific companies and form their own opinions. Here's what he says ab …
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2007-08-10 00:00 Microsoft loses key U.S. OpenXML vote
Microsoft has lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard, backed by the open-source community.
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2007-08-08 19:04 LinuxWorld: User Q&A with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian
There wasn't as much clapping as I thought there'd be. What I mean is; is when a user stepped up to the microphone to grill Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian about Microsoft, the GPLv3 and those infamous "coupons," there wasn't the zealous explosion of applause that I had become accustomed to over the years. There was some, to be sure, but the response was most definitely more subdued than I thought it would be when Hovsepian opened his keynote with the revelation that he'd be taking questions from the p …
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