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Avalon/WinFX for WinXP Pro
Yupeeeeee!!! Last week I installed the WinHEC 2004 build of Longhorn (Client Preview 2) on a Virtual PC because I wanted to start playing with Avalon and Indigo again. The 1GB of memory on my laptop and the number of…
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Interesting readings today
I had a fun morning reading some of the stuff around the web and close to home (Newcastle) but only now I got the chance to blog about them. By far the most important message to report was Jim Gray‘s…
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Microsoft Academic Days in Prague #2
Unfortunately Arvindra Sehmi couldn’t make it to the meeting. I was looking forward to meeting him and talking about FABRIQ. This also means that we are minus one talk for today so I have been asked to talk for more.…
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Mark Little is blogging
It was about time. Mark Little is blogging (subscribed). Expect great stuff here. Mark is Mr. Transactions guy and only few others around the world have his knowledge on CORBA. He was my manager during my HP Arjuna Labs days…
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Microsoft Academic Days in Prague
I arrived today in Prague. Really beautiful city. I am here for the Microsoft Academic Days 2004 for Central and Eastern Europe. I was invited my Microsoft to talk about our work in Newcastle on Internet-scale computing (a.k.a. Grid). There…
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Microsoft Research Fellowship @ Cambridge
Microsoft Research is funding a fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the area of e-Science. Here’s the official announcement. I think this is a great opportunity for a young researcher to pursue her/his interests in the area. Few years…
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Grek Pavlik is blogging
Just saw this over at Jim‘s. Grek Pavlik is blogging (subscribed).
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JWSDP 1.5
I read this over at Ted Neward‘s blog. JWSDP 1.5 is available. I read a couple of articles on this and I was happy to see that Sun’s framework allows message-oriented implementations of Web Services. It also supports WS-Security which…
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Tim Ewald on Web Services as Objects
Yup… The same old story. Are Web Services technologies going to help us build distributed, object-oriented applications or are we going to use them to build service-oriented systems? My preference for the latter is well known. Tim makes some interesting…
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Challenge accepted 🙂
Mark Baker challenges those of us who believe that a sensible architecture can be designed without depending on a particular (transport/transfer/network) protocol. In fact, Jim and I are doing exactly that in our next paper which is going to have…
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The MEST architectural style
MEST is for service-orientation and Web Services what REST is for resource-orientation and the Web. The above quote is taken from the paper that Jim and I have just completed. We decided to finally write down our ideas on ProcessMessage,…
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MS and HPC
I hadn’t noticed that the Microsoft HPC site went live. Cool stuff for doing distributed, high-performance computing on the Microsoft platform. Very cool. I actually submitted my CV for one of the HPC posts when the team was forming few…
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The WSEFAQ wiki
John did it again. Have fun with the wiki.wsefaq.com.
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.NET Service Logic Caching using WSE
While discussing the production service logic deployment I mentioned in my previous post, I thought that it’d be nice to apply the idea of dynamic service logic deployment for caching purposes. That is, not caching of SOAP documents but of…
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Dynamic service deployment @ Newcastle
In the last month or so we have started an effort here in Newcastle at NEReSC to build and deploy a production service for our application scientists. We want to utilise all the computational resources around the campus and eventually…