XML has become a pervasive part of significant segments of software development in a relatively short time. From file formats to network protocols to programming langauges, the influence of XML has been felt. I have written an overview of XML schemas, XML querying languages, XML-Enabled databases and native XML databases. Below is a shortened version of the article.

After reading approximately 50 stories on the events that occured on September 11^th, most of which are ill-conceived and poorly written I have decided to remove K5 from my list of bookmarks until further notice.

The C# Programming language is an object-oriented language that is aimed at enabling programmers to quickly build a wide range of applications for the Microsoft .NET platform. The goal of C# and the .NET platform is to shorten development time by freeing the developer from worrying about several low level plumbing issues such as memory management, type safety issues, building low level libraries, array boundschecking , etc. thus allowing developers to actually spend their time and energy working on their application and business logic instead. As a Java developer the previous sentence could be described as "a short description of the Java language and platform" if the words C# and the .NET platform were replaced with words Java and the Java platform.

What follows is an overview of similarities and differences between the language features and libraries of the C# and Java programming languages.

Someone's just given each of my last 10 comments a zero which effectively removed my trusted user status.

My internship at Microsoft is over and I'm back in ATL.

Internship's almost over and thought I'd provide some catchup info for anyone who's read my diary in the past few months. Quick rundown; working at MSFT is kinda cool, I've meet BillG and questioned him about MSFT vs. the GPL & Linux, the city is great and I may try for a writing gig on MSDN.

Micheal Simm's Slashdot's most hated editor has had all his recent posts slammed to -1.

My internship hunting situation has been updated with surprising results. I also realize that I was partially incorrect and rather obstinate in a recent thread on slashdot about compiling C/C++ programs against each others standard libraries.

Poll: What aspects of computing are you most interested in?

I had a choice between picking an internship at i2 Technologies or going for a final round interview at Micro$oft for an internship and picked the internship at i2. This was against the advice of my mom who feels that having MSFT on my resumè is more important than some e-business shop. More details below.

After reading this thread which degenerated into a ad hominim attacks and slashdot-style blind, unthinking, rabid zealotry primarily due to a single user who is notorious for creating K5's first true spammer account or as rusty put it our own gen-you-wine troll I would like to publicly reverse my previous opposition to killfiles and in fact offer my services in helping to implement them.