March 30, 2005

wbloggar site hacked?

I'm setting up new notebook (HP Pavilion ze2070ea - really really nice one) and just realized I can't download one of the most important piece of software I just can't live without - w.bloggar, blogging client, because its site seems to be hacked and defaced out. When you go to ...

Generating Word documents using Java

Dino Chiesa of Microsoft shows how to generate dynamically WordML documents using Java and XSLT. Yep, that's not a typo, Microsoft, WordML and Java. XML serves as peacemaker again. And he even provides a working JSP demo. Cool. ...

Baby photos

Here are some first photos of our little Catherine: Catherine's gallery. I believe I start feeling something unusual seeing her. That's really amazing. ...

Happy resource wasters

The day can't go well when it starts with such. That's really sad to see. The guy, who "used exceptions quite extensively to pass messages from the database all the way to the client", tested (no, "tested") cost of throwing exceptions in .NET on his desktop using such "test": Sub ...

March 27, 2005

MSDN Webcast: Making the Most of XQuery with SQL Server 2005 (Level 300) - 4/26/2005

Michael Rys will be presenting MSDN Webcast "Making the Most of XQuery with SQL Server 2005 (Level 300)" at 4/26/2005. This session provides an introduction to XQuery and the data modification language as implemented in SQL Server 2005, and shows you how to get the most from XQuery. Learn how ...