• Care about messages?

    I just saw that Christian Weyer and co are going to be at TechEd (Christian, the link in your post does not point to a public page) and they have some interesting talks lined up. Make sure you check it…

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  • Plumbwork orange

    After my previous post about WS-Eventing I was contacted by John Bristowe (subscribed) who told me about his Gotdotnet project, called “Plumbwork Orange”, “…a workspace dedicated to bringing some WS-* implementations into the WSE fold.” as John explains in this…

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  • Just as I started recovering from my jetlag…

    … I am off travelling again so posts may be infrequent for the next 10 days. Tomorrow I am off to Heidelberg, Germany, for Sun’s HPC Consortium meeting where I am giving an invited talk. I’ve been to Heidelberg twice…

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  • Geek jokes

    Computer jokes thread (link from this post from Chris Sell’s blog). And there are some more here. Like Chris, I particularly liked this one. Two strings walk into a bar. The first one says, “Bartender! Bartender! I want a drink!”…

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  • Having fun with WS-Eventing

    Jim and I are working on a new application that will combine Web Services and RFID technologies. One of the things that we need is events, so we decided to have a look at WS-Eventing. While on the plane back…

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  • Back from Hawaii

    Back from Hawaii and seriously jetlagged. Jim has a nice wrap-up of what happened during GGF11. I think that this GGF meeting was the “quietest” I’ve been. People seem willing to move on beyond the “infrastructure arguments”, adopt WS-RF as…

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  • Jim talking in Hawaii

    I am going to blog about what’s going on here in Hawaii later but for now I just wanted to post this photo of Jim presenting at the “Building Service Based Grids” workshop, the one that I mentioned in a…

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  • Ad-hoc BOF on Web Services-based Grids @ GGF11

    We are thinking of running an ad-hoc BOF at GGF-11 on Web Services-based Grids. The BOF will be an informal gathering of people who are interested in building Grid applications using existing Web Services specifications. Some suggestions for discussion: Have…

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  • Off to Hawaii for HPDC and GGF11

    I am off to Hawaii tomorrow for HPDC-13 and GGF11 (yes, I know… my job sucks but somebody has to do it :-). I am one of the co-organisers of the “Building Service Based Grids” workshop which is taking place…

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  • Michael Platt on the “Grid”

    Worth spending a minute to read this. It’s not just us thinking that the Grid community shouldn’t be concentrating its efforts on the infrastructure; that’s Web Services.

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  • Mapping DAIS concepts on WS-I, WS-Context, WS-RF

    Few months ago Simon Laws (IBM UK), Sastry Malladi (Oracle), and I started an effort to write a GGF informational document about how several of the concepts defined by GGF‘s Data Access and Integration (DAIS) working group could be mapped…

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  • Does doc/literal guarantee loose coupling?

    Eric Newcomer writes about the use of doc/literal when building WS applications. He supports the idea of document exchange to achieve platform integration. Of course, I agree with Eric since this is exactly what Jim and I have been advocating…

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  • Proposal to remove WS-RF dependency from WS-Notification

    Since the WS-RF and WS-Notification OASIS TCs were formed, I’ve been reading negative comments by other people about WS-RF’s conceptual model. At last I feel that Jim and I are not lone voices. This is a post by David Hull…

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  • WS-Security Profile by WS-I

    WS-I made available a draft of the WS-I Basic Security Profile Version 1.0. A very good development indeed.

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  • One of those Internet moments

    There are those moments on the Internet that capture everyone’s attention. This scam on a scammer seems to be one of those. You need to download the PDF. It’s a real funny account of the events that took place. Here’s…

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