This is how I see evolution applied to XML

INETA Academic, a committee that Jason Beres and I run, are currently looking for volunteers for the Imagine Cup local competitions around the US. If you are interested in some volunteering opportu…

Tonight I used the iTextSharp libraries to transform RSS into the iTextSharp XML dialect, then transform it into PDF. This library is awesome and open source. If you haven't checked it out, I sugge…

When building any game, you always start out writing the “Game Loop”. If all the game data was the blood of our game, the game loop would be the pumping of the heart that keeps us running. In Win32…

Well, VSStyler is now ready for download. It is an add-in into Visual Studio.NET 2003 that allows you to save font and color settings into “styles”. This way, you can switch settings at the drop of…

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With so much research being done on Artificial Intelligence and learning, it is striking that all research seems to concentrate on reinforcement learning, while research on associative learning alm…

Sorry to my fellow who's brinkster account has been maxed out (possibly via click throughs he mentioned he is getting from my Janet Jackson posting thinking that as he was the first to respond to i…

I ran across a nice little Com Interop “gotcha” when I was working with Excel automation from C# today. I'm sure that a lot of you with more COM Interop experience than me already know about this b…

using System.Data.SqlClient; ... SqlConnection oSQLConn = new SqlConnection(); oSQLConn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=(local);" + "Initial Catalog=mySQLServerDBName;" + "Integrated Security=SSPI"…

Implementing the Front Controller Pattern (1.0)

Does anyone know of any good open source UML tools? I've only used 4 UML tools: IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational XDE, Microsoft Visio, and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. I despise Visio, XDE is…

I mean seriously, do you want to waste endless hour in searching of an answer for a simple question? I know Senior Java Developers it all the time because of the poor support from Sun. Sun does not…

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Pretty exciting stuff! will be sponsoring the DevConnections show - ASP Connections, Visual Studio Connections and SQL Server Magazine Connections - in Orlando, April 18 - 21, 2004. Lots of our aut…

Here we are at the start of another hurricane season. As with past years, I have been preparing. Last year I had the house painted with a high-quality paint, giving the stucco its best waterproofin…

Now that SOA is taking the world by storm, this is the time to define the format that will be used to exchange data in this new architecture ruled by messages. Welcome to the world of SODA.

Today, I found out I have been MVPed in the area of XML. Wow!!!!!!! I am completely ecstatic. If you see someone walking around in Kansas City without a face, just a grin, that's me!

There are some great new interviews posted from Stephen Ibaraki. This round includes notables: Scott (4GuysFromRolla) Mitchell, Kate Gregory (Visual C++ .NET) and Rand Morimoto (Windows Server 2003…