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Zentity v2.0
Ahhhh! One of my “children” is growing up and maturing! I am so proud of the team over at Microsoft’s External Research. They have done an amazing job with Zentity. The new version packs a great set of cool new…
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Savas in a skirt and on a donkey 🙂
Well, after feeling extremely honored as a result of the Visiting Professor appointment, I thought it might be good to bring myself down to earth as fast as possible. So I asked my family to send me few photographs from…
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Professor Savas Parastatidis 🙂
I arrived at home after a fantastic weekend in New York. Since my cell phone had run out of battery while I was still at the JFK airport, I was only able to check my email after I got home.…
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“Breaking the code”
I love going to the theatre and I try to go often. Earlier tonight I saw a play that I particularly enjoyed. I went to see “Breaking the code“, a play by Hugh Whitemore about Alan Turing. I loved the…
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Wishful thinking…
Few interesting things happened today: I received my copy of “REST in Practice“. It wasn’t as a big moment as when my PhD thesis was printed (despite Jim‘s attempts to stress me out at the final moment with his “tick…
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You are one (or more 🙂 tweets away from a free eBook of “REST in Practice”
As we announced last week, we are going to be giving away free copies of “REST in Practice” as a way of celebrating its September 24th release. After this post, every entry in the #RESTinPractice tweet stream will be saved…
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How to get a free copy of “REST in Practice”
With the release of “REST in Practice” only a couple of weeks away, we asked O’Reilly to let us give few copies away 🙂 We just love giving things away 🙂 So, here’s what to expect: Jim and Ian are…
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“REST in Practice” at a University near you and some fun
A couple of days ago, O’Reilly sent “REST in Practice” to the (e-)printers*. It was a great milestone for Jim, Ian, and me; the end of a long road. The target date for the book’s release date is September 24th…
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Glastonbury 2010!!!
Another June, another Glastonbury 🙂 This year, however, it didn’t rain! The weather was amazing. The festival was amazing! I do think that it gets better and better with every year. Well, I am surely enjoying it more. I’ve been…
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Activities, travels, and music
It’s been two months since my last travel/music post. I am in a hotel in Athens waiting for the hours to go by before my return flights to Seattle tomorrow so I thought of recording some of my activities/travel/festival highlights…
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Great farewell note by J Allard
Sad day today at “the borg”. I really liked Robbie Bach’s and J Allard’s styles. I am sure they have their reasons (the ones they talk about and those that they keep to themselves) for leaving the collective. I liked…
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The Amnesty International advert that the Financial Times didn’t run
Here’s the advert that the Financial Times didn’t run (commentary from the Guardian). Share it through your Facebook account, if you have one. I’ve been boycotting Shell for years now (even came close to running out of gas in the…
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REST in Practice… meet the authors
My “REST in Practice” co-authors, Jim and Ian, have been doing an amazing job at creating presentation/courseware material for the book. It’s really humble to experience the kind of interest we’ve had so far from academics, even before the book…
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REST in Practice in editing/review/correction state and available on Amazon
It’s been a loooooong road, I think it might even be more than 2 3 years. Jim and I had talked about writing a book together about the Web, its design principles, its technologies, and its potential role in distributed…
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Coachella 2010 and Santa Monica visit
It’s been two weeks since Coachella 2010 but I only now got the chance to blog about the experience. Work and the focus on finishing “REST in Practice” have kept me really busy. The Coachella festival is definitely not Glastonbury,…