March 2006

/**/ Dawn   Afternoon   Night   And the sunset from Alki beach… Read more [...]

Interesting comments by Mark on my last post (in case you don’t follow my comments). Read more [...]

For those of you who don’t like doing messaging in the ‘http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’ or ‘http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope’ namespaces (SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 for the XML-impaired), here’s something exciting in the Atlas + WCF space. (via Steve) Read more [...]

Last week, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Intel published a roadmap document about converging their WS specifications in the resource-orientation, events, and systems management space. There has already been some commentary about the roadmap (Ian Foster’s “The Holy Grail: Industry-Wide System Management Standards at Last?”, Jim’s “The Emperor’s Second Set of …

/**/ It seems that not everyone agrees that the submission of specifications to W3C is a “good thing”. Please let me clarify what I mean by “good thing”. Do I agree with the resource-oriented nature of WS-Transfer as the underlying layer for service-oriented solutions? As older readers of this blog will …

According to Mark Baker most developers (85% vs 15%) will use the HTTP-based mechanisms for accessing the Amazon S3 service. This is because the “SOAP interface is comical”. I won’t try to support Amazon’s design. That’s their job. I would like to make a comment from a developer’s point of …

Today a group of companies submitted WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C. This is great for the Web Services community. Expect more good news in this space shortly.

This video is so funny. According to Scoble, Microsoft has confirmed that it was responsible for the video. This is great. I always believed that the sense of humor starts from self-sarcasm. It’s refreshing. The iPodObserver has the story. Read more [...]

/**/ Very interesting service. I am curious to see how it’s going to do commercially, especially given the free availability of GoogleBase (although mechanisms for programmatic interaction with the GoogleBase service have not been published yet, at least not ones that I am aware of). It’s interesting to note the service’s …

/**/ What can you do to someone who lives to travel?… Tell them that they are not allowed to travel!!! I am currently in the US on an O-1 visa. Microsoft has started the process for my green card application only a couple of months after my arrival. What I …

Few months ago, the “Behind the Code” show featuring Jim Gray was shot at the Microsoft studios. I had the honor of being part of the small audience. As always, Jim was great. The show is about Jim and his professional life rather than a specific technology topic. Highly recommended. …

/**/ Scott’s Ajax UI :-) (via Dennis) Read more [...]

This is funny :-)

After reading the comments by Mark Little and Mark Baker on Jim’s post (refer to my previous entry too), I wanted to say more on the subject… I don’t really agree with the use of the term ‘event’ as an architectural construct. While Jim and I promoted the use of the …

He he he :-) I saw this post on messaging and events (via Jim) and I was amused. The chapter we wrote almost 1 1/2 years ago for a book on service-orientation (I think the book should be published soon) dealt with exactly this approach. In fact, in there we …

One of the very few shows I watch on the US TV (Love Monkey) has been cancelled :-( I can’t understand. They had a great concept of guest musicians, the main character was a Bob Dylan fun (plus many great artists got mentioned during the show), they had great original music, …