Pete Schonefeld got an interview with Andrew Watt of SVG, XForms and xml-dev fame. He’s also the main author on SVG Unleashed, for which I wrote s few chapters.
O’Reilly has opened their new and improved .NET center, ONDotnet.com. The community and company support for .NET is growing at an amazing speed.
Peter Drayton, who runs one of the blogs I read on a daily basis, is starting his new job, as a Program Manager for MS working on the CLR team. Congratulations!
OASIS: XML Markup Languages for User Interface Definition. They are starting a new working group that will define a XML format for describing user interfaces. Interesting stuff.
Tom Gilder has found an XML interface for the new W3C validator. Hopefully they will provide a SOAP interface when it’s out of beta.
Middleware Company has done a benchmark of J2EE and .NET implementations of Pet Shop 2.0. .NET won all tests. Pretty outstanding. [via sellsbrothers.com]