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Microsoft Architecture Journal: “Service-oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing”
Back from holidays today (the reason I haven’t been bloging) and started the task of cleaning up my mailbox. As I was going through my messages I saw that issue 5 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal has been published. This…
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On the road again!
Since yesterday I am on the road again. I spent most of my day at Manchester having some discussions with Dean Kuo (of Rules SSDL Protocol Framework fame) and catching up with Mark McKeown and Stephen Pickles. It was nice…
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Web Services are RPC?
Continuing the exchange of comments with Michi Henning here are some more thoughts. Michi argues that “WS is *RPC*, by definition” . This is a definition that I haven’t come across. I personally see a big difference between a request-response…
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e-Science job vacancies in Newcastle
If you are into e-Science, there are many opportunities at Newcastle. Check the research and academic vacancies pages for openings in many related disciplines.
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Michi Henning’s comment formatted
Here’s Michi’s comment to my last post with the formatting preserved: Savas, my five cents worth, as usual… > We are even starting seeing hardware products to help with XML processing. Now, *that’s* really quite something. Translation: “The processing overheads…
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“Smart people defending bad ideas”?
In a recent post, Jim argued that SOAP performance is getting better and linked to a couple of articles presenting performance measurements. Of course everyone agrees that processing an XML document has its overheads. And of course, SOAP messages are…
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Thanks to everyone
Thanks to everyone for all the comments and the private emails. I am really looking forward to the job at Microsoft and the big change in my personal life. Interesting times ahead. I am going to continue to blog about…
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Back from travelling
Just wanted to break my recent silence. I am back from travelling. Glastonbury was FANTASTIC! Went to GGF 14 after that. I’ve been doing some interesting stuff with Virtual Server and Indigo while in Chicago. Expect a blog post soon.…
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Glastonbury time
I am switching off for 4 days while at the Glastonbury festival.
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The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything…
… is answered with a simple ’42’ as we all know from the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. And indeed, ‘42‘ is also the answer to the question for my next job’s location 🙂 I’ve mentioned in this blog…
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Sean McGrath on “File Save as… XML”
Totally agree with Sean on this one.
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MEST at the HPTS workshop
I recently got the invitation to participate at the prestigious HPTS workshop. My position paper was on MEST vs REST and our approach to building the future Internet-scale applications. I don’t know yet whether I’ll be asked to present these…
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Formal objection against [reference parameters]
I hadn’t noticed this. It’s been almost a month since this message was posted to the WS-Addressing mailing list. I had a break from following the WS-Addressing discussions since I thought that the work there was almost done. There was…
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Barcelona – a sad personal story
(If you are reading my blog just for the technical stuff, don’t read any further). In all the years I’ve been travelling, I’ve never been so absent-minded and unlucky at the same time. I arrived in Barcelona at 1.00am last…
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A brief note on contracts and XML-OO mapping
I am a supporter of using tools where appropriate and making the development experience as pleasant as possible. There has been lots of discussion on XML-OO mappings (Google is your friend if you want to find more) and this post…