April 2006 - Don Box's Spoutlet

Don Box's Spoutlet

Syndication

  • Gosling on Ruby

    Via Steve Vinoski , I just ran across this Gosling interview from last month. I expect the partisan comments about C# - hey, we're Microsoft damn it! Sun's supposed to hate us! The day Gosling has sincere praise for C# is the day Hillary Clinton names...
  • Sam's Two Webs

    Ever since inadvertently pulling the pin on the HiRest/LoRest hand grenade last month, I've got to admit it's been great to see folks trying to get beyond the SOA/REST noise and instead get to the bottom of what actually makes "the web" work . Of everything...
  • XSLT v. XQuery

    I just ran across Michael Kay's excellent comparison of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery from last year's XTech. It's great to see someone do a detailed feature analysis of the two. I got a lot out of the piece on several levels. The new xsl:analyze-string instruction...
  • POX and Indigo

    Steve just posted the checkin mail that went around today. POX support is no longer an optional download but rather is an intrinsic (and ubiquitous) part of the product. Even cooler is the fact that it's using the existing TextEncoder that we use for...
  • Spending the $100

    Three weeks or so ago, I rose to Tim's challenge and asked people to help me spend $100 worth of virtual engineering dollars to improve our support for XML/HTTP/REST technologies. Though a few people were nice enough to offer some suggestions, I apparently...
  • Microsoft Technology Summit - Wallowing in the Suckage

    Dino Chiesa asked me to speak at the Microsoft Technology Summit this year, which started today. MTS is an annual event where we bring in people who are steeped in non-Microsoft technologies and chat about what we're doing. This is the event where last...