This is cool. O’Reilly had an ebook promotion for cyber-Monday here in the US. “REST in Practice” did very well. It was the fifth best-selling title :-) Tim O’Reilly published a blog entry about the top selling books. Not bad! :-) If you have read the book and would like …
I feel that I need to express my opinion on the recent Wikileaks-related events. I know that many of my friends or those who follow my thoughts on the Web might not agree with me but I always believe that it’s healthy to have a difference in opinions since it …
I am a technologist. I am a geek. I know that. I make use of all sorts of gadgets or read about them. I try to follow all the latest developments. I read books to educate myself about new things. At work and at my free time I try to …
/**/ Ahhhh! One of my “children” is growing up and maturing! I am so proud of the team over at Microsoft’s External Research. They have done an amazing job with Zentity. The new version packs a great set of cool new features, building on the extensible nature of the graph …
/**/ Well, after feeling extremely honored as a result of the Visiting Professor appointment, I thought it might be good to bring myself down to earth as fast as possible. So I asked my family to send me few photographs from my childhood. It’s always good for one to remember …
I arrived at home after a fantastic weekend in New York. Since my cell phone had run out of battery while I was still at the JFK airport, I was only able to check my email after I got home. The first message in my mailbox: Subject: Professor Savas Parastatidis …
I love going to the theatre and I try to go often. Earlier tonight I saw a play that I particularly enjoyed. I went to see “Breaking the code”, a play by Hugh Whitemore about Alan Turing. I loved the script and the local production in one of Seattle’s many …
Few interesting things happened today: I received my copy of “REST in Practice”. It wasn’t as a big moment as when my PhD thesis was printed (despite Jim’s attempts to stress me out at the final moment with his “tick tock tick” soundtrack) but it was still quite a significant …
/**/ As we announced last week, we are going to be giving away free copies of “REST in Practice” as a way of celebrating its September 24th release. After this post, every entry in the #RESTinPractice tweet stream will be saved for a period of few weeks. Every 3-4 days …
With the release of “REST in Practice” only a couple of weeks away, we asked O’Reilly to let us give few copies away :-) We just love giving things away :-) So, here’s what to expect: Jim and Ian are always busy with traveling around the globe talking about REST, …
/**/ A couple of days ago, O’Reilly sent “REST in Practice” to the (e-)printers*. It was a great milestone for Jim, Ian, and me; the end of a long road. The target date for the book’s release date is September 24th (yes, of this year :-) a sample from …
/**/ Another June, another Glastonbury :-) This year, however, it didn’t rain! The weather was amazing. The festival was amazing! I do think that it gets better and better with every year. Well, I am surely enjoying it more. I’ve been going since 2004 and, still, I don’t think I’ll …
/**/ It’s been two months since my last travel/music post. I am in a hotel in Athens waiting for the hours to go by before my return flights to Seattle tomorrow so I thought of recording some of my activities/travel/festival highlights over the last couple of months. There was that …
Sad day today at “the borg”. I really liked Robbie Bach’s and J Allard’s styles. I am sure they have their reasons (the ones they talk about and those that they keep to themselves) for leaving the collective. I liked J Allard’s farewell message. I couldn’t agree more with the …
Here’s the advert that the Financial Times didn’t run (commentary from the Guardian). Share it through your Facebook account, if you have one. I’ve been boycotting Shell for years now (even came close to running out of gas in the middle of nowhere recently because of my refusal to use …
/**/ My “REST in Practice” co-authors, Jim and Ian, have been doing an amazing job at creating presentation/courseware material for the book. It’s really humble to experience the kind of interest we’ve had so far from academics, even before the book is published, based on the presentation material that we …