I watched the “Soccer” :-) channel for a bit on cable and I saw the end of the interview with the producer of “Goal! The Dream Begins” which is the first movie of a trilogy with a football-related storyline. The producer mentioned Newcastle so I tried to find information about …
I don’t use my blog to defend Microsoft or any of its products. Even before I came to Redmond, I tried to stay away from any discussions/arguments related to Linux vs MacOS vs Windows. I started using Linux back in ’92 or ’93 and it served me well during my …
/**/ It’s been very refreshing to see recent discussions about why/how the Web works moving away from the REST vs SOA argument, or POX vs WS, or how cool AJAX is. Here are few links to get you started: Don: “HTTP, XML, REST, and $100″, “coming out”, “spending the $100″, and …
The Windows Live Academic Search is finally online. They have some unique features compared to Google Scholar (BibTex and EndNote citations, “Sort by” option, abstracts, etc.). I know from an internal mailing list that they are actively tuning the relevance algorithm so the results should be even better. Together with …
Beautiful. Don comments. You wanted to do XML over HTTP you said? WCF can now help you! Well done to Steve and others for pushing this.
It was October 1st, 1995 when I started my MSc. degree at the University of Newcastle and when I was given the ‘nsp20′ handle which I used for more than 10 years. My account at the Newcastle systems didn’t expire immediately after my departure back in August because there were discussions about a …