Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITchristian.einfeldt writes “According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February ISO vote. The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the ‘leap year bug’, VML, compatibility settings such as ‘AutoSpaceLikeWord95′ and others will be ‘extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.’”
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TSA Limits Lithium Batteries On Airplanes
yali writes "The U.S. Transportation and Security Administration has issued new rules limiting travel with lithium batteries. As of January 1, no spare lithium batteries are allowed in checked luggage. Batteries carried in the cabin are subject to limitations on per-battery and total lithium content, and spare batteries must have the terminals covered.
Domains May Disappear After Search
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Daily Domainer has a story alleging that there may be a leak that allows domain tasters to intercept, analyze and register your domain ideas in minutes. 'Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,' says one industry insider.
Ivo Jansch's Blog: Book Announcement: Enterprise PHP Development
It is loosely based on my 'enterprise PHP development' talk at the Zend UK Business Conference last year. It will cover the entire development lifecycle of a software project, but targeted at PHP development teams. He points out that the first version of the book will be handed in in March so ideally it will be released soon after that.
Evan Sims' Blog: Announcing LibGameFly
At the moment it's very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing... well, whatever the hell you want with it. It works with some of the feed functionality (RSS/APIs) to grab data about users' accounts.
ProDevTips: Writing A CMS/Community With Smarty And The Zend Framework: Part 7
Covering the whole process in one piece would make it a very long piece indeed. He provides the code examples and complete SQL structure to get the blog up and rolling as well as some handy tips and explanations along the way.
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It can also generate XML documents from nested arrays that define the document tag structure. The class can load XML documents from files or text strings. It turns the document tags into keys of a nested associative array.
Rich Internet Applications Vs AJAX: "2008 Will Be A Crucial Year"
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PHPLogger
It can open separate log files to write error log messages depending on the error severity levels. The class supports error severity levels: debug, info, notice, warning and error. Error messages of all severity levels are written to the default error log file.
How To Launch A Successful Technology Start-Up
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American Security Firms Collaborate On Chinese Olympics
"'I don't know of an intelligence-gathering operation in the world that, when given a new toy, doesn't use it,' said Steve Vickers, a former head of criminal intelligence for the Hong Kong police who now leads a consulting firm. Indeed, the autumn issue of the magazine of China's public security ministry prominently listed places of religious worship and Internet cafes as locations to install new cameras.