When I read this post about Office Communicator from Don Box (that was before I joined Microsoft), I was impressed. Just few minutes ago, Paul Watson (he gave a talk at MS Research earlier) called me from another MS building. Office Communicator realised that I was in front of my …
For those of you who are at the MVP Summit this week here at Microsoft please note that unfortunately the “WS-Sushi 2″ dinner may have to be postponed until next year. I’ve been away at HPTS so I couldn’t organise it for one of the previous days and from today onwards Microsoft …
/**/ Wow! Was that a workshop or what? That’s how all technology/research/science meetings should be. It must have been the best workshop/conference I’ve attended so far. What’s HPTS? It’s a group of scientists and industry people getting together and talking about stuff. HPTS likes databases, transaction processing, scalable systems, etc. However, …
Early in the morning I flew to San Francisco where I met Paul Watson, Mark Little, and Dan Kuo. We drove down to the Asilomar Conference Centre for the HPTS. It was a great drive. We took route 1 by the Pacific coast and we stopped at places on the way. …
/**/ One thing I was planning to do as soon as I joined Microsoft, but haven’t got the chance to do so until now, is to write a disclaimer about my blog posts from now on. I am posting the disclaimer next as a separate post so I can link …
Great poster (via Stefan). Our industry WS-* leaders, and all of us (Web and Web Services advocates together), should have a good look at this poster and perhaps take a moment to reflect… where did all go wrong? Why are there specs doing the same thing in a slightly different …
/**/ The 2005 MVP Global Summit is taking place next week (28 Sep – 1 Oct) here in Redmond. I know that some of you are going to be around and have already expressed an interest in getting together for dinner and/or drinks. So, how about you send me an …
I thought that this was an interesting discussion that if was to be continued in my comments, many of you might miss it (I know how difficult it is to follow comments on blogs). Mark believes that I didn’t answer his question. Hmmm… Perhaps I didn’t understand the question then. …
Mark Baker recently posted this question for us MEST folks: “how does MEST differ from the architectural style that would describe the architecture of Internet based email?” (please note that there is a more recent post entry on MEST, which does not explicitly talk about the confusing-to-some “process message” operation, from the …
He he he :-))) Don suggests that there may be a petition to save C# from all the new features in the v3.0 timeframe (note to all: Don is joking). I am really looking forward to playing with all these new features! Functional programming, data/xml/etc query integration! Wayyyy cool. Perhaps C# …
/**/ A week has already gone! And it has been fantastic apart from the jetlag from which I have only now recovered (other times I traveled to the west coast it wasn’t this bad). Today (Sunday) the weather was excellent. I was walking around the city all day. Few silly …
Apparently there are quite a few of those here on the Microsoft campus where everyone gets together for a drink and some food. This time it was Greek food (I guess the word of my arrival was spread around :-). I met Becky Dias with whom I had interacted quite …
As Dan Fey wrote in his blog, there is going to be an e-Science event here in Redmond early in October, the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2005. I will get the chance to meet some of my friends from the e-Science/Grid community and see Jim Gray again after HPTS. Also, …
John Bristowe joins Microsoft. Welcome John! (he he, I’ve only been here for five days and I have the nerve to welcome others! :-)
Hey, if you have a cluster around, you should definitely try this. Hmmm, I probably need to go and introduce myself to that team and check out what they are up to. I guess the feature set, mostly MPI-based at the moment from what I can see, is already set …
Things are going great! The weather has been fantastic since I came (however, I am assured by those living here that it’s not always like this). The trip to/from work is very pleasant due to the fantastic landscape. I am still seriously jetlagged. Today I woke up at 6am (yesterday …