Submitting Your XML Sitemap to Google
According to the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, the users now no longer have to specify the Sitemap file type in order to submit a Sitemap to Google!

Date: 2008-12-29

New Tools Make Open XML More Accommodating
Love the company or hate it, at least Microsoft seems to be doing a little more work.  After we documented its patching of some stuff last time, the software giant's effort to create some format interoperability solutions is now proving fruitful.

Date: 2008-12-09

Microsoft XML Core Services Patched
If you've been ignoring the little yellow update notices provided by Windows, now might be a good time to finally acknowledge them and do some downloading. One of the most recent patches addresses three vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services.

Date: 2008-11-25

Altova Launches Suite Of XML Tools
Altova has rolled out an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools in its Altova MissionKit. The suite of software tools works with Microsoft Visual Studio; supports the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format in 2007 Microsoft Office documents...

Date: 2008-11-05

Report Puts XML In Long-Term Place of Importance
When the future arrives, at least one group believes that XML will remain part of the scene instead of becoming old news. A fresh WinterGreen Research report covering "opportunities, strategies, and forecasts" through 2014 paints XML as a significant force.

Date: 2008-10-17

OOXML Moves Past Appeals Towards Publication
For better or for worse, you can't keep Microsoft's Office Open XML down.  The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has rejected appeals from Brazil, India, South Africa, and Venezuela, and approved the format as an international standard.

Date: 2008-09-04

Picking XML Security Appliances
To hear the vendors tell it, security problems are becoming worse with every passing week.  To be fair: monitoring companies often back this up. 

Date: 2008-08-15

Google Unveils XML Alternative
Over at SEOmoz, Duncan Morris has come up with an informative post that provides the users with the pros and cons of using XML Sitemaps.

Date: 2008-08-04

Google Unveils XML Alternative
The search giant didn't spit out any insults, and it didn't demand that everyone follow in its footsteps, either. Still, it may be of interest to XML fans that, when faced with the problem of encoding a lot of data, Google will now be using an XML alternative called Protocol Buffers.

Date: 2008-07-16

WordPress has Added XML Sitemaps
WordPress.com has added XML sitemaps so I thought I would take a glance at their implementation. My immediate though was to take a look at Lorelle's sitemap.xml

Date: 2008-06-17

Trusting Hacking crossdomain.xml Files
What other sites do flash and other web 2.0 components trust, by Google search or Google hacking the crossdomain xml file, you can find out some very interesting things about what sites are trusted by another site, and where API's or other trusted widgets can come from, including advertising.

Date: 2008-05-22

XmlException: Data At The Root Level Is Invalid
A few days ago I needed to write some functionality to fetch an XML document from a URL and load it into an XmlDocument.

Date: 2008-04-18

XML Sitemap Ping Tool
All the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live, and Ask) use the XML Sitemaps protocol for getting URLs from websites.

Date: 2008-03-25

XML-RPC ping endpoint in C# and ASP.NET
All blog platforms send out pings using the XML-RPC protocol whenever a new post is created or an old one is updated. It is very simple to send out XML-RPC pings using C#, because it is just a normal HTTP request with some XML in the request body.

Date: 2008-03-04

A New Way to Organize Your Feeds
When you come across something interesting on the web, but don't have time to read it at that moment, what do you do? The old way is to add the web page to your browser's bookmarks or favourites so you can retrieve it when you do have time.

Date: 2008-02-07

Google Sitemaps and Competitive Intelligence
I'm a big fan of the Google Webmaster Central Program and using sitemaps. I agree that you should build your website so that it is crawlable and not rely on sitemaps to compensate for poor site architecture, but hands down there is no better tool when you are migrating or cleaning up after a site migration than webmaster central.

Date: 2008-01-04