December 2004

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Register the location of your blog. Daniel just IMed about the effort he started (after an existing service was discontinued).

/**/ I saw a post at the winfx.avalon newsgroup about the lack of support for a BackgroundWorker in Avalon (at least for v1.0). Since I need something like this for calling the Web Services asynchronously and then updating the Graphical User Interface, I just created a very simple one. public …

/**/ The experiments with Avalon and the Galaxy visualisation continue. Here’s a screenshot of ~78000 objects loaded into Avalon . The gold stars are the ~5000 of the personal version of SSA while the ~73000 are the stars from the personal version of the SDSS (MySkyServer). Waiting from Bob Mann (a …

In case you do not follow the comments on my blog posts, here’s another great one about moving the behaviour from the endpoint by Michi and my response (almost agreeing! :-) Of course I am not suggesting that we completely move to a world where all applications are built using …

/**/ As I previously mentioned, I’ve been experimenting with Avalon. As a toy application, I am developing a 3D star browser for our galaxy. The idea is to get the information for the stars from one of the scientific archives (SDSS or SSA) and display it in 3D. Last summer …

/**/ Just pointing to a couple of great posts, compatible with and adding lots more to the views I expressed in the “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” and “Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies” posts: – Benjamin Mitchell’s summary of a presentation …

/**/ Michi Henning made some very interesting comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” post. Before going into the specifics of Michi’s comments, please allow me to emphasize that nothing from what I have been arguing is about CORBA or DCOM or any other distributed objects technology. …

/**/ Michi Henning had some comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” entry but pblog had trouble accepting them due to an ASP.NET safeguard (not accepting XML elements in a textbox from HTTP POST). I will fix this and will also allow formatting for comments so that …

I owe an apology to Greg Goth. Greg took offence with my comment that he got it wrong about Jim being a lecturer in this interview (btw… Jim’s bio). Greg posted a transcript of his chat with Jim and he’s right. Although I am sure that Jim had something else in mind I …

/**/ In a meeting yesterday here in Newcastle, few of us (Santosh Shrivastava, Paul Watson, Mark Little, Stuart Wheater, Simon Woodman, and I) got together to discuss/understand the differences (if any) and similarities between service-orientation and object-orientation. You may notice that some of the people involved are the same as the ones behind …

/**/ :-) Web Services takes the world and “How many jokes have a WSDL as a punchline?” :-)) (via Matt). UPDATE: Here’s another one Seriously now… Your favourite WS advocates (I meant Jim and myself :-) are working on something in the WS description area and this time we have collaborators. Watch …

Jim, amongst others, was interviewed on the REST vs WS debate (“Critics Say Web Services Need a REST”). Jim pushed the MEST ideas although not by name (btw… thanks for the reference mate :-) and I was glad to read Mark Baker’s comments suggesting that there may be something in what we …

/**/ And here’s the reason I wanted to have support for posting pictures on my blog… I wanted to brag about my first Avalon 3D application (completely written in XAML). As I mentioned before, I want to move the 3D visualisation of the White Dwarfs application to Avalon. So, I …

Next month it’s going to be one year since I started blogging. All this time, pblog has been servicing my feeds and supporting the weblog version of my blog. I have been using Newsgator to follow other people’s blogs and the plugin that comes with it in order to post …

/**/ If the Web has taught us anything is that simplicity in the design is our friend when we want to achieve scalability. That’s the approach we are advocating with MEST and that’s what we have been saying to the Grid community who is introducing things like OGSI and WS-RF …