January 2010 Entries
I have spent the last several months developing solutions with Office 2007 and the Office Open XML SDK 2. Our client has requirements that cross the suite from PowerPoint Presentations to Word Documents. The Open XML standard which define the structure of these documents is very powerful. My biggest frustration is the lack of consistent capabilities between the products. Since we are doing document generation based on templates it is very important we that the code can consistently identify any part...
Posted On Friday, January 29, 2010 12:31 AM | Feedback (0)
The Chicago Architects Group will be holding its next meeting on February 16th. Please come and join us and get involved in our architect community. Register Presenter: Chris McAvoy Topic: Amazon Cloud Services Location: Illinois Technology Association 200 S. Wacker Dr., Suite 1500 Room A Chicago, IL 60606 Time: 5:30 - Doors open at 5:00...
Posted On Monday, January 25, 2010 2:58 AM | Feedback (0)
We had a great turnout this evening and some wonderful discussion. I really enjoyed presenting as well as seeing a lot of people I haven’t seen in a long time. At the same time there were a lot of new faces. Some of the input from tonight will definitely go to improving this talk if I present it again in the future. If anyone has comments feel free to leave them here. The next talk I am going to work on is Document Generation Frameworks. This will mainly be around Office Open XML, but it will include...
Posted On Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:38 PM | Feedback (0)
Last month when I spoke at ArcSummit for nPlus1.org about design patterns, object oriented programming and dependency injection Chris Woodruff and I sat down and recorded an episode of Thirsty Developer with Dave Bost and Clark Sell. Check it out here...
Posted On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:22 AM | Feedback (0)