Grab bag: Excel and XML, SOURCE, and Cramer

Excel will create an XSD from an XML document that doesn’t have one. With a little work you can get the XSD back out again:

“Start the Visual Basic Editor with Alt+F11. In the Visual Basic Editor, hit Ctrl+G to open the immediate pane. In the immediate pane, type:

Print ActiveWorkbook.XmlMaps(1).Schemas(1).Xml”

Genius.

One indispensable feature of this toolbox is the ability to reload a modified schema without having to recreate all your XML mappings. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with Excel 2007.

When cyberwar — politically motivated DDOS and other attacks — becomes commonplace, computer security becomes national security.

Advice from SOURCE Boston: don’t secure the systems, secure the data.

What’s the right way to disclose security flaws? Full disclosure, partial disclosure, or responsible disclosure? I only wish I were kidding.

Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart sit down and do extended fisticuffs. In three parts.