Doug Mahugh
Microsoft Interoperability Team
Being Heard: A Reasonable Man Speaks Out
In just a couple of hours, I'll be on a call with my fellow members of INCITS V1, the technical...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/05/2008
Failed Precondition
I'm back in the office for the first time since the BRM, and I wanted to take a look at the various...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 03/04/2008
DIS29500 BRM: the final day
Today is the last day of the DIS29500 BRM, and I've just arrived at the convention center. It's been...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/29/2008
Relaxing in Geneva
After another long day, a massage, a meal, and a walk, I'm going to sleep like a ton of bricks....
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/27/2008
That BRM rumor you've heard? It's true
Yes indeed, I'm wearing a suit every day ...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/26/2008
More Geneva Photos
I didn't get out to CERN after all (they're closed on Sunday, and I didn't think it was worth a vist...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/24/2008
Open XML links for 02-20-2008
Patrick Durusau speaks out again. I'm glad to see that Patrick Durusau is continuing to share...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/20/2008
Open XML links for 02-18-2008
Binary documentation and translator project. On Friday Brian Jones covered the availability of the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/18/2008
PHPExcel 1.6.0 goes into production
Maarten Balliauw has a Valentine's Day gift to the PHP community: the production release of PHPExcel...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/14/2008
DOCX support from down under
Sydney's Aspose Pty Ltd, a developer/publisher of developer components for the .NET and Java...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/13/2008
Open XML links for 02-11-2008
Erika's Office Devcon overview. My brief mention of Office Devcon over the weekend was light on the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/11/2008
Video discussion with Brian Jones
I had a chance last week to talk to Brian Jones about the proposed dispositions to the DIS 29500...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/08/2008
Experts speak out on document formats
A couple of interesting posts today by two of the most experienced people I know in the world of...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/07/2008
Open XML links for 02-04-2008
Indexing DOCX files with Lucene in PHP. Maarten Balliauw has another great post on working with Open...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 02/04/2008
Open XML links for 01-31-2008
Another busy day for me, with very little time for blogging, but there's so much going on in the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/31/2008
The Silver Bullet of Harmonization
My friend and colleague Jasper Bojsen has written an interesting post on a tactic some are using to...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/30/2008
Open XML links for 01-30-2008
Open XML and XSLT with XMLSpy. Alex Falk has a great post on how to create a simple XSLT that...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/30/2008
Open XML links for 01-25-2008
TechDays 2008. TechDays 2008 is coming soon to Ghent, and Gill Cleeren has the details. I enjoyed...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/25/2008
Open XML links for 01-23-2008
Reading Reed. my colleague Reed Shaffner has started blogging. This should be fun. Reed is the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/24/2008
Welcome to the party, IBM!
I learned this afternoon from Gray Knowlton, that a commenter on Brian's blog had linked to a couple...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/18/2008
Open XML links for 01-18-2007
Google's support for the Open XML formats continues to improve. They recently started identifying...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/18/2008
Binary documentation and translator project
Brian Jones has some good news today for developers who want to work with both the binary Office...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/16/2008
"Breaking news" on NOOOXML.org
Apparently the lack of IPR issues around Open XML (Oliver and Jason have recent coverage of this...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/12/2008
Open XML links for 01-11-2007
I've been pretty busy since the holidays, and consequently haven't got around to posting links to...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/11/2008
Open XML in Japan
Open XML Book. Yoko Girier of Toshiba has written a book that provides an overview of the Open XML...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 01/08/2008
Merry Christmas!
Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I hope you have a relaxing holiday season this week. While...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/24/2007
A stocking stuffer from TC45
Ecma TC45 has uploaded to their web site proposed dispositions for 2298 of the 3522 total DIS 29500...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/21/2007
Open XML links for 12-20-2007
Document Science CTO on Office and Open XML. My good friend Warren Wilbee recently interviewed Dr....
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/20/2007
Symbian support for DOCX/XLSX
Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is the first mobile productivity software suite to support Office 2007 file...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/20/2007
World of confusion
Rick Jelliffe's "World of Confusion" blog post about his impressions at an all-day seminar on the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/18/2007
New blog: Gray Matter
People often ask me how much smaller Open XML documents are than corresponding Office binary...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/18/2007
Where's Wouter?
I've been wondering lately, "what's up with Wouter?" He was so active blogging about Open XML in the...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/15/2007
Open XML links for 12-13-2007
The last week has seen some interesting discussions and useful how-to posts on Open XML blogs ......
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/13/2007
Ecma project editor passes the 50% mark
As Ecma announced today, the project editor (Rex Jaeschke) now has proposed dispositions for over...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/12/2007
Linq to XML code samples
Well, that didn't take long: Eric White has already posted a series of blog posts on using Linq to...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/11/2007
New member of the Open XML team: Eric White
I recently mentioned that I've moved to a new role in the Office organization, and now that my...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 12/06/2007
XML 2007 Conference
Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all sides of the document format...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/27/2007
Open XML Portfolio Manager
An open-source demo application on Codeplex shows how a Java application can generate Open XML...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/16/2007
Open XML links for 11-15-2007
Office Developer Conference 2008. It's time once again for an Office Devcon, and this time it will...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/16/2007
Open XML links for 11-04-2007
There has been quite a bit of Open XML discussion in the blogosphere recently, and I've not posted...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 11/04/2007
What do you save as?
Some interesting anecdotes and attitudes in a thread on Slashdot that started yesterday afternoon...
Author: Doug Mahugh Date: 10/19/2007