(David Mertz) The author continues his discussion of how XML is used in the configuration of GUI interfaces. He looks at Mozilla’s XML-based User Interface Language (XUL) which allows you to write applications that run without any particular dependency on the choice of underlying operating system. T

(Paul Ford) According to Tim Berners-Lee’s WWW2004 keynote address, the Semantic Web is entering “phase II”, a time of “less constraint” when Semantic Web developers are encouraged to build upon the foundations of RDF and OWL to create working applications on both the server and the desktop. And whi

(Peter G. Aitken) A lot of people associate the .NET framework with XML, and for good reason. .NET uses XML behind the scenes to implement many of its development tools, such as SOAP and Web services. Beyond that, however, .NET provides a powerful set of classes for working with XML directly. Whatev

(David Clark) The Command objects in ADO.NET (such as OleDbCommand and SqlCommand) are a central aspect of the .NET database access strategy. When used properly, they provide excellent performance and security.

(Sean Michael Kerner) Two of Microsoft’s rivals in the browser space have joined forces on a standards proposal slated to be presented to a W3C workshop. The Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software collaborated on the document, which represents their “consensus” opinion in the context of standards

(Dan G.) You know how it is – you start work on one project and halfway through you find one or two side-projects crop up that have to be solved before you can continue on the original project. This is one such project with the added twist that it too started its life as a side-project.

(David Mertz) This article continues his discussion of how XML is used in the configuration of GUI interfaces. He looks at Mozilla’s XML-based User Interface Language (XUL) which allows you to write applications that run without any particular dependency on the choice of underlying operating system.

(Patrick O’Kelley) Every generation remakes Shakespeare for itself with new costumes, new set designs, and new interpretations. But, despite numerous advances in humanities computing, variorum editions of the works of Shakespeare have relied on models established well before the digital age. Since t

(Hilton Giesenow) Prior to .NET, DCOM existed as Microsoft’s solution to remote object access. This technology leveraged the successful COM architecture to provide an infrastructure for remote communication. However, DCOM suffered from a variety of drawbacks and difficulties, and it ultimately led t

(Mitch Gitman) Sometimes you just wish software architects weren’t so creative or, at least, were more coordinated. It seems that’s what happened with SOAP, the standard format for web services messages. The SOAP specification started out defining a lot of protocol-specific XML structures that n