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Blurring the boundaries between virtual reality and the real world
It’s not a surprise to see the boundaries being crossed. Sci-Fi writers have been writing about it for some time and over the last few years we’ve experienced technological advances in online gaming indicating the direction. Nevertheless, I still find…
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“Goal! Dream Begins”
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…
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Vista filesystem encryption an anti-Linux feature?
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…
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The safe/unsafe Web and what’s that X-Bender header?
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,…
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“Windows Live Academic Search” launched
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…
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FW: Checkin #1383521
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.
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RIP nsp20
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…
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Seattle throughout the day
Dawn Afternoon Night And the sunset from Alki beach…
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When control flow semantics leak
Interesting comments by Mark on my last post (in case you don’t follow my comments).
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POX using WCF
For those of you who don’t like doing messaging in the ‘http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’ or ‘http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope’ namespaces (SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 for the XML-impaired), here’s something exciting in the Atlas + WCF space. (via Steve)
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Web Services systems management and the Grid
Last week, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Intel published a roadmap document about converging their WS specifications in the resource-orientation, events, and systems management space. There has already been some commentary about the roadmap (Ian Foster‘s “The Holy Grail: Industry-Wide System…
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What’s a “good thing”
It seems that not everyone agrees that the submission of specifications to W3C is a “good thing”. Please let me clarify what I mean by “good thing”. Do I agree with the resource-oriented nature of WS-Transfer as the underlying layer for…
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Amazon S3 – HTTP or Web Services: which is easier to use?
According to Mark Baker most developers (85% vs 15%) will use the HTTP-based mechanisms for accessing the Amazon S3 service. This is because the “SOAP interface is comical”. I won’t try to support Amazon‘s design. That’s their job. I would…
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WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C
Today a group of companies submitted WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C. This is great for the Web Services community. Expect more good news in this space shortly.
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The Microsoft iPod video
This video is so funny. According to Scoble, Microsoft has confirmed that it was responsible for the video. This is great. I always believed that the sense of humor starts from self-sarcasm. It’s refreshing. The iPodObserver has the story.