• 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.

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • Paul Watson on Cloud Computing

    A great short interview with Paul Watson on what Cloud Computing is all about (on the BBC Radio Digital Planet).

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • At the Data Intensive Computing Symposium

    Lots of clever people are gathered in Yahoo‘s headquarters for the first Data-Intensive Computing Symposium. I see lots of familiar faces and the program looks VERY interesting. I really liked Randy Bryant‘s change of his DISC term (PDF download)… Data-Intensive…

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  • Relationships can have properties as well

    I was asked a very good question by the people who are going to be using our “research-output” platform. They want to be able to capture information like this: “Paper P was authored by Author A while A was a…

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  • "Article authoring" add-in for Office

    If you write papers and you interact with publishers (especially in the bio field), I think you are going to like our thinking with this add-in for Office. It supports the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine,…

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  • Microsoft and "Research-Output" Repositories

    What is Microsoft going to show at the Open Repositories 2008 conference in few days? Why is the entire “scholarly communications” section of the Technical Computing team going there? 🙂 Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, Santosh Balasubramanian (an honorary member!), and…

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  • Loving last.fm

    After my latest soccer (erm… football) league game today, which we lost again :-(, I came to the office to catch up with some work. I installed last.fm for the first time and I am loving it. I felt like…

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  • Experimenting with the myExperiment Web API

    I have been closely following the excellent work by myExperiment team. They recently presented at my team’s All-Hands Meeting here in Redmond. It was nice to see David De Roure (co-principal investigator) and Jiten Bhagat (main developer) again. Microsoft is,…

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  • Google Visualization API

    I just love it and I am jealous. We should be doing things like this as well. After the Gapminder folks moved to Google, we were all expecting something like this to be released. The execution is just beautiful… components…

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