This series is not dead, just on hold while I do my real job, help with FIRST Lego, and try to be a scoutmaster. I have done almost nothing on the next installment other than change my mind about what it should be. Given the relative proportions of who uses what, my plan is to address text files first, then add hierarchical files - TDMS, Config/INI, XML, HDF5. The last two are the most interesting and the worst currently supported, so I will probably do them first. I know that XML is really a text file, but most APIs try to abstract most of that away, leaving a hierarchical format model as the method of interaction.
In the meantime, I will be giving a couple of the Developer Days presentations in Houston tomorrow (February 15). If you are there, make sure you introduce yourself at one of the breaks.
