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The East Coast Don
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XML and SuperString Theory???
As you can tell, the XMLDevCon is still affecting my brain. On the flight home, while watching the movie “Bringing Down the House”, my mind started to drift. The XMLDevCon experience was starting to mix with the Discover and Scientific America magazines I was reading and I remembered a post I made a while back on XML and the SuperString Theory. I didn’t come up with any new insights, but maybe someone out there is willing to lend a hand. Here’s the original post:
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Ideas, Not Beliefs
During the XMLDevCon I noticed that you could divide the people into two groups: those with ideas, and those with beliefs. Whatâ€s the difference between them? To borrow from Kevin Smith's movie Dogma, People are comfortable changing ideas, but usually don't change beliefs.
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XMLDevCon Summary
I’m writing this as I’m flying back home. Which is a couple days ahead of schedule. I had to change plans due to some family matters, and miss the SVG Open. Don’t worry, nothing life threatening, just something that required me back home. Here’s my summary of the XMLDevCon.
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Missing the SVG Open
Unfortunately, I had to fly back home early from the West Coast to attend to a family matter. This meant I had to cancel my 2 presentations on SharpVectors at the SVG Open. Now I consider SharpVectors to be one of my most important projects, and only family could have dragged me away from doing these presentations.
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Adobe Announces ASV6 Tech Preview Release
Just got an announcement from Adobe on the svg-developers Yahoo Group, that they just released a Tech Preview of Version 6 (skipped a couple release numbers) of their SVG Viewer. You can download it here.
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Link To My Presentation Code
Here's the link to my presentation code. It's a quick and dirty index page of some of the examples, and the presentation.
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Major VS.Net and SVG Annoucement At XMLDevCon
I'm currently in the middle of the Whidbey XML Tools Demo at the XMLDevCon, and the biggest thing for me was the
announce of SVG support in the next version of VS.Net.That includes an editor and a rendering engine. This is the first time MS has offically released anything that could render SVG. -
One Presentation Down, Two to Go
Well, the more prestigious of the presentations is done, now for the debrief. I thought the presentation was going to be short, but I wound up running over, and was not able to show the Bar Codes Web Service. Shows you how much I know. Lots and lots of questions, which is usually a very good sign. I didn’t think that many people would be interested in a presentation on Declarative UI using SVG, so I was surprised about the number of questions. I guess that I’ve been doing this stuff for so long without much interest from the outside world, that I’ve accepted that most folks don’t get it. Obviously I was wrong. Lots of folks get it, and are interested in it. Then why don’t SVG books sell? Hmmm. Maybe the SVG books are missing the target audience.
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Quote of the Day at XMLDevCon
Don Box gets the quote of the day from the XMLDevCon (and more than likely, the conference):
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Blogging From XML DevCon
Just wanted to stop in an say hi from the DevCon. I'll give updates as the come in. My presentation is at 1:00PM PDT. Introduced myself to Don Box, and we didn't destroy each other, so we must be different people.