(Rick Strahl) Web Services are powerful technology even in its basic form. However, with .Net you can easily couple them with .Net’s new data services to provide a powerful data delivery mechanism that works over the Web making it possible to build distributed applications that work easily without a

(Uche Ogbuji) I wrote the Python-XML column for three years, discussing the combination of an agile programming language with an agile data format. It’s time to pull the lens back a bit to take in other such technologies. This new column, “Agile Web,” will cover the intersection of dynamic progr

(PG Bartlett) We’re fond of history lessons in this column, so let’s go back to the year 1900. At that time, the average worker in the United States earned about $500 a year and a bicycle cost $600. No wonder the men on old-fashioned bicycles wore a top hat and tails – you had to be rich to own one!

(Dethe Elza and David Mertz) SVG has been a W3C recommendation for some time now but has been slow to catch on in the wider Web. That might be changing now that Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari), and Opera all support (or are about to support) SVG in their browsers, without plug-ins. The Linux deskt

(Alan Zeichick) Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are going to change everything. From software architecture to development to deployment, over the next few years SOAs will have a bigger impact than most modern paradigm shifts. It’ll be bigger than the shift to the Web, and more analogous in sca

(Ed Ort) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) — especially web services-based SOA — has been the talk of the IT community. It’s almost impossible to discuss corporate technology plans or strategies without discussing SOA. That’s because many IT professionals see SOA as a way to speed up the applica

(James Snell) In a previous article, I walked readers through an overview of the newly minted Atom 1.0 Syndication Format and provided a high-level review of the technical strengths of the standard. At the conclusion of that discussion, I briefly touched on Atom’s extensibility mechanism which is de

(Don Fluckinger) Opinion: Large-scale, feature-rich implementations of XML forms from Adobe, IBM, and Microsoft might be an answer in search of a problem.

(Indroniel Deb Roy) With the evolution of XML, the XSL standard also became very popular for transforming XML data to XML, text, PDF, etc. However there are some limitations to the XSLT transformation. Today’s XSLT processors rely on holding input data in memory as a DOM tree while the transformatio

(Vincent_RICHOMME) It is always difficult to start a new article and the first question that arises is what to title it. I must admit that this time I have been a bit pretentious but my first goal was to provide a new framework based on an XML description (like XUL or XAML). Actually I started t