I’ve been spending the last couple of days searching for an apartment to live. I wanted to find something in the heart of Belltown but everything seemed so expensive. At the end I found a nice large studio on the top floor of Fountain Court. Its price was higher than …
Exercising my Program Committee duty to advertise the call for papers for CCGrid 2006.
This time it’s not my or our server’s fault. I think Jim has problems with his DNS registrar. He’s working on it so his blog should be up and running soon.
I just wanted to write a quick note about a comment by Don O’Brien at Steve Vinoski’s blog… “Dr. Ian Gorton ( http://www.ug.it.usyd.edu.au/~iango/home/IanGorton.htm) mentioned MEST and SSDL in a workshop at the 2005 ICSE conference. Steve what are your thoughts on the intersection of the SSDL and MEST work with …
Hey, I wasn’t aware of the Seattle Code Camp v1.0. Thanks to my Digipede’s Robert Anderson for letting me know (Dan Ciruli will be there to talk about GOOP). I am going to be walking around some areas of Seattle over the weekend to see where I want to live …
“Monkey with a typewriter” Don Box, a meeting room, building 42, Redmond, WA, USA, 21 Oct 2005
So, I bought the Audi A3 today (Lava Gray with a pearl effect and some extra options). My first ever car! Thank you to all of you who replied to my request for comments either on my blog or privately. Many many thanks! I was thinking today about the changing …
I had to go through the second phase of my Washington state driver’s license today. I took the theory test around 10 days ago. I turn up at the Kirkland office of the Department of Licensing only to find out that I didn’t have the necessary insurance documentation. I still …
Hey all, apologies for the downtime (I don’t know how long the blogs were down). Our Windows Server 2003 got updated automatically at some point and rebooted itself. Unfortunately, since its previous reboot (long long time ago) I had changed the password of my domain account (on the network where the …
1281 blog posts in my queue and counting! Doh! I am having fun with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the moment. Chris is also having fun (“Workflow Communication Spelunking” and “More Workflow Communication Spelunking”) although he is not absolute crazy with the experience :-) I’ll …
I have been asked about the relationship between SSDL’s SC Protocol Framework and W3C’s CDL a number of times. Grek Pavlik was the last one to ask. Simon Woodman, who has been responsible for the SC work, gave a good explanation. Do let us know if you have any comments …
There has been a lot of buzz lately about WS-Addressing ERPs, the reference parameters, and how resources should be identified. Jim wrote about it a couple of days ago. I agree with Jim. I too was against reference properties/parameters but in favour of WS-Addressing (btw… this was and is my personal view …
Cool… I keep discovering new things that are going on around here. I just found out about the Microsoft art collection. They organize events with guests and exhibitions. This is sooo cool!!! Yesterday I got myself in to a football team; the “Blind Squirrels” 6-a-side indoor soccer (grrr!) team :-)) My footy …
/**/ Hey all… I need your help… I am about to buy a car and in the next week or so I am planning to start the test drives. I like stylish, smallish, fun cars. Unfortunately the one that I really like (BMW Series One) is not available in the …
This is very cool. If you want to learn and/or play with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), WFPad is an excellent standalone tool. If you want VS.NET (Express) 2005 integration, you can download the extension pack (please note that the current beta 1 release will not work with the Express edition but …
We received note from IEEE Internet Computing that our paper on SSDL was accepted for publication in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue on “Asynchronous Middleware and Services”. The reviews were very good and constructive. We’ll have to make few changes which will hopefully make the paper even easier to read but …