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April 2008

Jim on .NET Rocks

It’s really funny to experience your pal’s rise to stardom :-) I hope that Jim doesn’t forget his humble origins and friends :-))) Due to the years we’ve been working separately, our rhetoric has slightly diverged. I personally see a service as an architectural abstraction for encapsulating some piece of …

Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1

It’s been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight v1.1, I put some time today in re-implementing it in Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1. Enjoy.

Working from Greece

/**/ For the last two weeks I’ve been working from Greece, from my family home. It was sooooooo nice being close to family and friends again. I miss being there. I also took the opportunity to visit Istanbul. It’s crazy that I had never been there even though I grew …

SOA – cohesion, granularity, coupling, rudeness… eh?

Those who have been following my blog for the last few years know that I have stopped blogging about Service Oriented Architectures, SOAP, REST, etc. I would like to think that I have moved on, leaving the space for those who actually actively practice building systems in the enterprise. I …

Asia Director for our Technical Computing team

We are hiring again. This time it’s for our Asia Director position. Feel free to contact me directly and I’ll put you in touch with Daron Green, the Technical Computing @ Microsoft director. Alternatively, you could just submit your resume through the Microsoft Careers page. Oh… and if you are …

Glastonbury here we come!

Tickets for the Glastonbury festival were out for sale today. Last year, I was only able to get tickets for Carole, Dave, and myself when they reissued some from the failed transactions. Back then, we had been trying for hours and hours but we couldn’t get through. We were prepared …

Santosh is blogging

Woo hoo! I hadn’t realized. He should have told me (or he did and I forgot :-( Santosh Balasubramanian (hehe… someone with a more difficult last name than mine :-) is blogging! Santosh is the GREAT Program Manager with whom I’ve been working over the last few months. He works …

Merging data graphs – myExperiment & Resource-Output Repository Platform

/**/ In a recent post, I briefly discussed our “research-output” repository platform and linked to a video of a demo visualization of the data graph stored in the repository. I had previously used the same WPF technology to visualize the myExperiment data graph. Since I’ve been talking about “data networks” …