• 3 weeks on the road

    I am off tomorrow on a crazy 3-week-long trip: Tomorrow I am flying to Oslo where I am giving the keynote at the “Workshop on Web and Grid Services for Scientific Data Analysis (WAGSSDA)”. I am planning to talk about…

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  • Intel inside an Apple

    This is big news. Apple is moving to Intel. The blogosphere and the tech-news sites have gone mad. (image from www.spiegel.de 🙂

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  • Referral spam – How annoying!

    My weblog has been getting hundreds of spam referrals per day from poker and casino sites. I don’t know what prompted this but it just won’t stop. And to think that I hate gambling!!! Grrr! Does anyone have an idea…

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  • Web Services platforms – Comparisons?

    Hey all. Our bioinformatics group has been using Axis 1.1 for some time now and they have been pushing it to its limits in terms of performance (i.e. size of messages it can handle and number of messages per second).…

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  • The Coderoom: Reality TV meets geeks?

    I read about the Coderoom in few blogs and then Simon also emailed me a link to it. There are two episodes now. Very geeky 🙂

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  • StarBrowser3D in Avalon Beta 1 RC video

    After few months of not really having touched Avalon, I spent sometime with it yesterday while on the train. I ported my StarBrowser3D to the latest bits. For a screenshot, links to previous posts, and information about the StarBrowser have…

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  • The journey continues…

    My “Visiting MS” post signified a turn into how I had been treating my exploration of job opportunities with regards to blog posting. That post attempted to capture the great time I had while being interviewed by Don, Oliver, Chris,…

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  • SSDL v1.3 updates

    I finally updated the SSDL site with the versions of the documents published as University of Newcastle upon Tyne Computing Science Technical Reports. Let me know of any problems.

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  • On description languages, REST, the Web, MEST, SSDL, and ‘declarative distributed computing’

    This is very interesting! The W3C has started a mailing list (subscribed) to discuss Web description formats. Mark Nottingham is asking in his “Web Description at the W3C” post whether some Web Services folks are probably “seeing the light” about…

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  • What do Web Services have to do with the Alps?

    I am really glad to see the “Rethinking the Java SOAP Stack” paper being released to a wider audience. Steve and Edmund have written a great paper describing the Alpine-style for Web Services development. Now, if only Alpine incorporated SSDL…

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  • Samples in the WinFX Beta 1 RC SDK

    The WinFX Beta 1 RC SDK is now available (there is a link to the ISO further down the page). There are lots of samples for both Avalon and Indigo but you need to extract them manually. After I installed…

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  • Our MIT SOC book chapter got accepted

    Jim and I received good news about our submitted chapter to an upcoming MIT Press book on service-oriented computing. The feedback was very good. The chapter, entitled “Realising Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services”, focuses on architectural principles for building service-oriented…

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  • WinFX Beta 1 RC (Indigo and Avalon)

    I read today in the Indigo newsgroup that the Indigo and Avalon Beta 1 runtime is now available for download. This version will play nicely with the .NET version we get when VS.NET Beta 2 is installed. I successfully performed…

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  • Building a custom Indigo transport binding for dynamic endpoint resolution

    After my holidays and my trip to Seattle I am now finally slowly catching up with email and blogs. So, I once again had a little bit of time to have some fun with Indigo. (Expect more frequent posting from…

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  • Tetris Shelving

    What an excellent, geek-friendly idea 🙂 (Stratos, via email)

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