Dare Obasanjo's WebLog
A Solution to Problems with MSN Messenger Contact Cards and Deleted Spaces
Tom has a post entitled MSN Messenger contact card problem where he writes When MSN Spaces first...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/21/2004
Yahoo's Media RSS and Yet More Syndication Geeks Misunderstanding How XML Works
I saw a recent post from Dave Winer berating Yahoo! where he wrote Yahoo is the strangest most...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/18/2004
MSN: The New Hotness
I recently started reading the Microsoft Monitor weblog written by Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research....
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/16/2004
Using FeedDemon Newspaper Styles in RSS Bandit
While taking a lunch break I decided to finish up implementing full support for FeedDemon newspapers...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/14/2004
Some Thoughts On the MSN Toolbar Suite Beta
It seems December is a good month for new releases from MSN. From Microsoft PressPass we learn...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/14/2004
Interested in XML Integration in Conventional Programming Languages?
Looking at the calendar I realized that I have two articles due this month, one for my Extreme XML...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/10/2004
XML Heavyweights Migrate to Redmond
Since I left the XML team at Microsoft they've gone on an impressive hiring spree. Two people who...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/08/2004
Analysts on MSN Spaces
Watching the various kinds of feedback about MSN Spaces has been illuminating. You have the geeks...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/06/2004
RE:Versioning Web Service Parameters
Don Smith continues our conversation on parameters to XML Web Service methods in his post Versioning...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/06/2004
A Note on Deleted Spaces
There have been some questions from users of MSN Spaces regarding deleted Spaces which I'll try to...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/04/2004
What Blog Posting APIs are supported by MSN Spaces?
I've seen a number of people ask if MSN Spaces supports any web service APIs such as the Blogger API...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/02/2004
Top 5 Things I Dig About MSN Spaces
By now it's common knowledge that MSN Spaces became widely available to the general public today. As...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/02/2004
MSN Spaces Launched
From the Microsoft press release MSN Introduces New Communication Service That Enables Blogging,...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 12/01/2004
RE: One parameter to rule them all: Part 2
Don Smith has a post entitled One parameter to rule them all: Part 2 where he writes In my post...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 11/30/2004
XSD, RELAX NG and Why We Didn't Ship System.Xml.IXmlType
Tim Bray has a post entitled More Relax where he writes I often caution people against relying too...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 11/30/2004
The Transition is Complete
Yesterday I literally stopped being the face of XML at Microsoft. From now on if you go to...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 11/11/2004
New Beginnings
Friday was my last day on the XML team at Microsoft. On Monday I start work as a Program Manager on...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 10/24/2004
SAX for .NET 1.0 and SAXExpat.NET 1.0 Released
Karl Waclaweck has released version 1.0 of the SAX for .NET project. In the announcement on XML-DEV...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 10/21/2004
Hindsight is 20/20: Three Things XML Got Wrong
Derek Denny-Brown, the dev lead for both MSXML & System.Xml, who's been involved with XML before...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 10/17/2004
Upcoming Changes to System.Xml in .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2
We are in the process of locking down System.Xml for Beta 2 of the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 10/13/2004
The XML Litmus Test: Understanding When and Why to Use XML
I just finished writing last month's Extreme XML column* entitled The XML Litmus Test: Understanding...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 10/10/2004
Frustrated with the Limitations of XSD for XML Document Validation? Try Schematron!!!
My article Improving XML Document Validation with Schematron is finally up on MSDN. It provides a...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 09/20/2004
EXSLT.NET 1.1 released
Oleg has just announced a new release of EXSLT, his post is excerpted below Here we go again - I'm...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 09/14/2004
7 Fallacies of Validation
Roger Costello recently started a discussion thread on the XML-DEV mailing list about the common...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 09/08/2004
More Information on the XPathDocument/XmlDocument Change in Whidbey beta 2
In my recent post entitled The MSDN Camp vs. The Raymond Chen Camp I wrote Our team [and myself...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 09/03/2004
The MSDN Camp vs. The Raymond Chen Camp
A few months ago in Joel Spolsky's How Microsoft Lost the API War he wrote There are two opposing...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 08/25/2004
RELAX NG, XSD and XML Web Services
In his post I Want RELAX NG! Tim Ewald writes This recent post on Mark Nottingham's site pushed me...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 08/20/2004
Building an XmlSerializer in Javascript
Anders Norås has an interesting blog entry entitled A JavaScript XmlSerializer where he shows how to...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 08/14/2004
New and Upcoming articles on the MSDN XML Developer Center
I have been remiss about talking about the ongoing and upcoming content on the MSDN XML Developer...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 08/11/2004
Transcripts of Online Chat with Microsoft XML Team
On July 8th, a couple of us from the XML team held a hosted chat on MSDN Chats. The transcripts of...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 08/02/2004
Loading XML Files from Behind a Proxy Server
I recently got a number of bug reports that in certain situations RSS Bandit would report a proxy...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 07/31/2004
On Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats
About a week ago my article Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats appeared on XML.com....
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 07/28/2004
When Backwards Compatibility Mode Isn't
Today Arpan (the PM for XML query technologies in the .NET Framework) and I were talking about...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 07/21/2004
Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web Service Benchmarks
Taken from the an article on TheServerSide.com entitled Microsoft Responds to Sun’s Web...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 07/15/2004
C-Omega compiler preview available for download
A little while ago some members of our team experimented various ways to reduce the...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 07/14/2004
Breaking Changes in System.Xml from v1.1 to v2.0 of the .NET Framework
At Microsoft one of our goals in developing software is that backwards compatibility when moving...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 07/04/2004
What Would You Like To See in System.Xml in Orcas/Longhorn?
I'm in the end stages of doing the spec work for the various components in the System.Xml namespace...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 06/24/2004
Online Chat with Microsoft XML Team
The folks at MSDN Chats have organized an online chat session on C# and XML for next month. The...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 06/19/2004
XML 2004: I'll Be There
My submission on Designing Extensible & Version Resilient XML Formats has been accepted to XML...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 06/18/2004
Michael Rys Comments on Infoworld article "Databases flex their XML"
In a post entitled My comments on the Infoworld article "Databases flex their XML" Michael Rys...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 06/15/2004
Applied XML DevCon: Call for Speakers
Chris Sells has announced the call for speakers for the Applied XML Developers Conference 5. From...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 06/08/2004
Would You Like to Work for the XML Team at Microsoft?
We have a few open developer and program manager positions on the WebData XML team at Microsoft. Are...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 06/03/2004
XML, the New Database Heresy
C.J. Date, one of the most influential names in the relational database world, had some harsh words...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/28/2004
Document-centric.NET Article on XML.com
XML.com recently ran an article entitled Document-Centric .NET, that highlights the various...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/28/2004
XML in SQL Server 2005
The next version of SQL Server will have a significant amount of functionality related to storing,...
Author: DareObasanjo Date: 05/25/2004