June 2005

I am switching off for 4 days while at the Glastonbury festival.

… is answered with a simple ’42′ as we all know from the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. And indeed, ’42′ is also the answer to the question for my next job’s location :-) I’ve mentioned in this blog a number of times that I was looking for a …

Totally agree with Sean on this one.

I recently got the invitation to participate at the prestigious HPTS workshop. My position paper was on MEST vs REST and our approach to building the future Internet-scale applications. I don’t know yet whether I’ll be asked to present these ideas by giving a talk but to actually be at …

I hadn’t noticed this. It’s been almost a month since this message was posted to the WS-Addressing mailing list. I had a break from following the WS-Addressing discussions since I thought that the work there was almost done. There was a formal objection against the current SOAP binding of the …

/**/ (If you are reading my blog just for the technical stuff, don’t read any further). In all the years I’ve been travelling, I’ve never been so absent-minded and unlucky at the same time. I arrived in Barcelona at 1.00am last night. Took a taxi from the airport as nothing …

/**/ I am a supporter of using tools where appropriate and making the development experience as pleasant as possible. There has been lots of discussion on XML-OO mappings (Google is your friend if you want to find more) and this post adds to it. I don’t have a problem with …

/**/ I am off tomorrow on a crazy 3-week-long trip: Tomorrow I am flying to Oslo where I am giving the keynote at the “Workshop on Web and Grid Services for Scientific Data Analysis (WAGSSDA)”. I am planning to talk about White Dwarfs, data integration and web services, a little …

/**/ This is big news. Apple is moving to Intel. The blogosphere and the tech-news sites have gone mad. (image from www.spiegel.de :-) Read more [...]

/**/ My weblog has been getting hundreds of spam referrals per day from poker and casino sites. I don’t know what prompted this but it just won’t stop. And to think that I hate gambling!!! Grrr! Does anyone have an idea how to tell them to stop using their crawler …

Hey all. Our bioinformatics group has been using Axis 1.1 for some time now and they have been pushing it to its limits in terms of performance (i.e. size of messages it can handle and number of messages per second). I have advised them to consider other Java (unfortunately they …

I read about the Coderoom in few blogs and then Simon also emailed me a link to it. There are two episodes now. Very geeky :-)

/**/ After few months of not really having touched Avalon, I spent sometime with it yesterday while on the train. I ported my StarBrowser3D to the latest bits. For a screenshot, links to previous posts, and information about the StarBrowser have a look at the “An updated view of the …

/**/ My “Visiting MS” post signified a turn into how I had been treating my exploration of job opportunities with regards to blog posting. That post attempted to capture the great time I had while being interviewed by Don, Oliver, Chris, et al. at building 42. I also suggested in …