by John E. Simpson – How do I convert Microsoft Excel data to XML?The easiest way is to use either a commercial product (such as Infoteria's iMaker for Excel — $150 for a single developer license) or any of a number of publicly-available Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications (VB/VB

By Paola Di Maio – The IT industry over the last decades has been lead commercially by companies like Microsoft and Oracle, who tightly manage their kits and never even talk to people on the phone unless they are paying customers.Their respective proprietary technologies have become ‘de fact

The first focused event of its kind, VoiceXML Planet 2002 Conference & Expo is the premier VoiceXML event for business and technology leaders who are looking for strategic, technical and market opportunities in the emerging interactive voice applications and services market.

SOAP is a boon in the quest for interoperability between servers — but it is still a challenge to deliver SOAP-based solutions which perform well in production environments. Frank Cohen offers tips on overcoming scalability problems, and introduces a free open-source utility to proof performance in

By Paul Golick – This article presents a set of 17 broadly applicable practices for using XML. These practices were published by the Association for Retail Technology Standards to aid its development of standardized XML messages for exchange between information technology systems that support retail

by Pavel Kulchenko – In many cultures, the end of the year is a time for review and contemplation. Most of my work is related to Web services, and it should come as no surprise that I would like to take a look at the latest developments in that field. More than twenty acronyms related to Web service