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Microsoft greases OOXML wheels with binary tech specs

Microsoft is making it easier to access the technical documentation for its older Office binary document formats and will sponsor an open source project to map those binary formats to Open XML. Read more »

Microsoft publishes 'incomplete' OOXML specs

Microsoft has been accused of publishing "incomplete" specifications for its Office file format binaries. Read more »

Microsoft Office 2007 is incompatible with OOXML

Word documents generated by the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, according to tests run by a document standards specialist. Read more »

Microsoft adding XML files to Office 12

Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Read more »

Google denies disassembling Vista code for Chrome

The source code underlying Google's Chrome web browser suggests Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to use a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company has denied doing this. Read more »

Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'

Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. Read more »

Debate rages about the security risks of OOXML

Contrary to claims by the US Department of Defense that Office Open XML might lead to increased security concerns, vendor lock-in and backwards compatibility issues, Microsoft claims that OOXML resolves exactly these issues. Read more »

Google open sources XML-alternative Protocol Buffers

XML, it seems, has run out of steam for Google. Google said Monday that it has created an open source project for a data interchange format called Protocol Buffers. Read more »

KDE starts testing version 4.1

KDE, the desktop software project widely used on Linux systems, this week released the first test version of KDE 4.1, a significant upgrade and the second edition of KDE to use the Qt 4 application development framework. Read more »

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Features (95)

Send binary data in XML

You may be familiar with using text to describe data in XML files, but what if you want to send binary data? Find out what XML characters will derail binary data and how you can work around the problem. Read more »

Adding value changing functionality to the HTML file input element

The HTML file input element is a valuable commodity that can add value to intranet applications. This article provides simple code that will allow you to control the value of this element. Read more »

A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 2

In the second part of this series we you how to activate PHP's extensions, setting resource limits for your PHP scripts, and altering configuration variables on the fly through a PHP script. Read more »

A tour of the PHP.INI configuration file, part 1

The php.ini configuration file lets you alter many aspects of PHP's behaviour, including setting file paths and directories, changing session and database parameters, and activating extensions. Read more »

Securely delete files with shred

Most users are familiar with the rm command. Most of the time, this command is sufficient for routine deletion, but for files that contain sensitive data, you might need to scrub them so that they cannot be recovered later with other data retrieval tools. Read more »

Using FileZilla on Linux

Recently, the open source FileZilla FTP client became available for Mac OS X and Linux. Previous versions of FileZilla were only available for Windows. Read more »

Handling large data files with Java

When you're reading and writing a lot of data, performance can suffer. Luckily, the java.io package provides tools that can help boost efficiency. Read more »

Reading and writing text files with VB.NET

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET. Read more »

Control Apache with the apachectl command

The apachectl command is an often overlooked program that allows you a great deal of control over Apache processes. This article explains the basics of this command, which you can use to debug or test Apache configurations. Read more »

Keep your options open with FTP file uploads using PHP protocols

This brief tutorial focuses on FTP-based file uploads using the PHP-FTP protocol to upload in a two-step process: from your local disk to a Web server and then to an FTP server. Read more »

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Blog (3)

Windows Azure: New windows, same tools

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Microsoft was at pains to stress that it will be creating an environment that developers feel familiar towards for Windows Azure development. Read more »

Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »

Photoshop, Meet Flash

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- It's conference season at the moment in the northern hemisphere and Adobe has been busy demonstrating some of the features of the next version of Flash, code named "Blaze". Designers are going to love this version as it has the ability to import PhotoShop files while preserving layers, editable text, shapes and effects. Read more »

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