August 2006

Very funny (Link to YouTube – OK Go – Here It Goes Again). Via Doug.

I am really glad to see that many of the ideas of functional programming are finding their way into mainstream. Once our programs are captured declartively (e.g. using Abstract Syntax Trees as in LINQ), opportunities for implicitly identifying and exploiting parallelism emerge. NIP was all about that but we didn’t …

The keep making new ones and they are still great!

This post is being written using Windows Live Writer, which is great! I had to add minimal support for the MetaWeblog API to pblog because the beta version of Windows Live Writer (here’s the SDK) does not yet allow you to add new providers so I couldn’t add supprot for pblog’s Web …

I wish this to have been the case, really… but one never knows… strangest things have happened on the Web :-) Jim posted some links to what is being said on the web about SSDL. Cool.

Yes! It’s finally out there! I’ve spent some good few months on updating WS-MetadataExchange to incorporate the use of WS-Transfer, to describe the use of EPRs for pushing metadata, update the examples and make them consistent, bring WS-Addressing 1.0 Core, and more. Although Web Services specifications/technologies is not what I do for my …

I have been “dog fooding” Windows Vista for some time now. It has not been without pains. However, recent builds feel fantastic. I can finally run my screen’s laptop at 120dpi without any problems; the environment looks sooooo beautiful when in high-DPI mode (better than anything I’ve seen). The entire …

Just saw an announcement about the e-Science group at Newcastle is looking for a technical director. With so many going in Newcastle in the area of e-Science and with the great and extremely exciting projects that Prof. Paul Watson is involved in, this is a fantastic opportunity. I would strongly …

I have been trying to persuade Jim to let me blog about our book for some time now. I thought that by blogging about our book-related efforts, we’d be forced to keep up with our self-imposed (but so far not met) deadlines (I am very much the culprit on this …

In case you don’t follow the comments on my blog, there is an interesting exchange under my previous post on the subject.

I’ve been looking at synchronization-related concepts lately. It’s been really nice to revisit some ideas/concepts from my PhD years (e.g. consistency models for shared data in distributed environments). ‘Optimistic concurrency’ is a term I’ve encountered a lot and I just read the “Optimistic concurrency – a false panacea” post by …

/**/ I have discussed the issue of identity, naming, and addresses for large-scale distributed systems in the past (e.g. “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions”, “Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies”, ”WS-Web (The Web using SOAP:-)”, and more). It’s a topic that keeps coming …

I really need to start saying “no” to Program Committee invitations :-) Here’s another one (PDF) I am on for CCGrid07.