XAML: Extensible Application Markup Language

by jp on November 29, 2003

XAML (pronounced “Zamel), Object Graph definition language or Extensible Application Markup Language, is Microsoft’s new XML-based declarative markup language for building application in the next generation of Windows, code-named “Longhorn”. XAML allows the developer to control the layout of application (…)

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Links for calendaring information

by jp on November 27, 2003

Web is full of controversial information about calendaring and on this conclusion. I decide to make some link library (Mainly for my own reference) related to calendaring and scheduling.

New design

by jp on November 25, 2003

I finally did new design for this site. I started yesterday and I got this far. I made small downgrade to XHTML-strict from module based XHTML 1.1 because seems like browser world is not really ready yet for module based (…)

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XHTML2 no more backward compatible

by jp on November 24, 2003

I was reading an article at IBM development zone. An article claims that XHTML 2.0 lack of backward compatibility is actually a Good Thing. If you are front-end designers/developer who know and care about and use web standards and you (…)

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newsbot now on msn.com

by jp on November 20, 2003

Microsoft is clearly frightened of the power that Google represents. Rumors say that they have been trying to buy Google out but Google wasn’t interested. Now thay have team up with moreover.com by building http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/ amazing resample to http://news.google.com/. Uh, (…)

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dotnetcal.com website released

by jp on November 20, 2003

Product site for our upcoming calendaring application is now released. Check out yourself http://www.dotnetcal.com. I wrote site in PHP and I am using MovableType Personal Publishing System in backend. Check out speed how fast pages are loaded. Site runs on (…)

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Old projects and still going

by jp on November 20, 2003

I was reading at Swedish website that one of my old projects has again won 1# price on “Best Business Solution”. Site is StoraEnso corporate site. I was working on it in 99-00 in Finland by developing administration for their (…)

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Microsoft has open Word 2003 XML-format

by jp on November 18, 2003

BIG hand to Microsoft on this one! Microsoft will license for free its Microsoft Office 2003 XML schemas, a move that will help outside developers enable other programs to trade data with Microsoft’s Office applications. The company released the schema (…)

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Greetings from Denmark

by jp on November 17, 2003

Sometimes I wonder why did I leave from Barcelona to Copenhagen…. Naah, Denmark is a nice country, just 3000km too North… ;)

SCO and their lame lawyers

by jp on November 13, 2003

SCO is really hard on now on the battle against Linux. Now they have started to sue individuals including Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. That is such a dirty thing what SCO tries to do to. I have (…)

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