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• Open XML @ TechEd Europe 2007

  In a few days one of the biggest IT events in Europe is starting: TechEd Developers and the TechEd IT Forum . Come join many professionals and learn about new and current technologies. I will be attending TechEd Developers, together with a few collegues. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:30 PM by wouterv | 1 Comments Filed under: Open XML, TechEd

• Откройте XML в России

  Я весьма горд объявить российский выпуск Открытого XML Объясненная книга. Есть другие переводы в создании и немногих доступный уже. Очень прохладный! Я надеюсь, что Вы любите читать маленькую книгу и что это обеспечивает немного ценных пониманий в мир Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:23 AM by wouterv | 6 Comments Filed under: Open XML, TechEd

• Open XML in Healthcare

  Just learned from Microsoft that the white-paper on Open XML in healthcare is available on MSDN. The goal of the whitepaper is to show how Open XML can increase the portability of health records and empower the end-user in the tooling that they are familiar Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:53 AM by wouterv | 4 Comments Filed under: Open XML, MSDN

• OpenOffice developer strikes out at Sun

  Funny to see that Microsoft software is called 'closed', and they are always accused of overly protecting their markets. This is from one of the OO developers: But I’d love to be proven wrong. I’d love to be proven that Sun still are Read More... Posted Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:20 AM by wouterv | 10 Comments Filed under: Open XML

• Get a hard-copy of the Open XML - The Markup Explained book

  The fruits of my labor are finally getting there. I just learned from Doug that he'll be sending over a container ship with hard-copies of my first book on Open XML. This means I can finally satisfy the overwhelming demand of people wanting to get Read More... Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 6:16 PM by wouterv | 12 Comments Filed under: Open XML

• Come jump in with me

  Thinking of leaping into .NET, Open XML, or SharePoint? Not sure where to start? Come jump in with me! Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 10:16 AM by wouterv | 3 Comments Filed under: Open XML, .NET, SharePoint

• 75% approve in the States

  Just in: http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=vote&committee=INCITS&ballot_id=2341&_UserReference=96EBDF227BF339D246CE4E20 It appears that the INCITS will move to vote Approve with Comments. The latest ballot resulted in 12 approves, Read More... Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 10:21 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• A funny spin

  While checking up on my RSS feeds I came across this one which has a great quote. "So we have language. And, although specialists may disagree, the English language allows us to express ourselves effectively. I propose to abolish all other languages Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:31 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments Filed under: Open XML

• Germany to vote 'approve with comments'

  From Hans Bos: http://vacant.spaces.live.com/default.aspx and he finishes: So Germany is aiming to have its cake and eat it too: approve on the standard and having it's comments addressed. I wish we did... and for the German speaking crowd: http://www.din.de/cmd?level=tpl-artikel&menuid=47392&cmsareaid=47392&cmsrubid=47533&menurubricid=47533&cmstextid=64985&2&languageid=d Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:24 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Balancing out

  Given the fact that opinions tend to differ, here's a few blog posts from other committee members that I am aware of. ISOC: http://isoc.nl/michiel/nodecisiononOOXML.htm Microsoft: http://vacant.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2526F2136E321C7E!283.entry Did Read More... Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 9:49 PM by wouterv | 1 Comments Filed under: Open XML, MOSS

• Gnumeric not able to open a spreadsheet?

  One of the things I mentioned is that there are implementations of Open XML right now, and more will come in the future. An example is Gnumeric , a free fast and accurate (according to them :) spreadsheet tool that you can get for free. Within our Dutch Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:48 AM by wouterv | 4 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Get the first Open XML book free!

  Doug has been so kind to get the Open XML Explained book online on OpenXMLDeveloper.org ! No payment required, nada, niente. The soft- code cover costs exactly the same, but is a little harder to come by in the wild (I have my copy :) Did I also mention Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:54 PM by wouterv | 10 Comments Filed under: Open XML

• Package Explorer 3.0 RC1

  With some pride I bring you the next version of Package Explorer . The beta given out earlier gave a slight preview of the direction being headed in, but now the application is feature complete and I can show off some more UI and features. The goal of Read More... Posted Saturday, August 04, 2007 11:51 PM by wouterv | 12 Comments Filed under: Open XML, Package Explorer

• Spreadsheet formulas and PHP

  One of the things that I tell in my Open XML workshops is that when you insert a new row in a spreadsheet, before rows that have formulas in them, you probably have to manually update those formulas since they now reference rows that have moved because Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:07 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments Filed under: Open XML, SpreadsheetML

• First signs of sensibility

  From Doug's blog: A month ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts posted a draft of its revised Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) policy, requesting comments from the public. As I noted in a post on June 30 , "The ETRM (Enterprise Technical Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:33 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO