Open Specification Promise: What. How. Why.

20 years ago

This is great for those building protocol-based integration solutions. ?Recently, Microsoft announced a new type of licensing model aimed at…

No laptop for a week :-(

20 years ago

I got my first laptop in the late 90s and very soon it became my main work machine. Apart from…

Another great example of a ‘Web 2.0’ application…

20 years ago

... This time not hosted in a browser though. Here's a screenshot of an Outlook 2007 appointment with the Outlook…

Great AJAX application != REST application

20 years ago

YourMinis.com is another example of how the ECMAScript platform together with XML over HTTP can be used to do great stuff. I…

My weblog is ‘Web 2.0’-enabled :-)

20 years ago

After the removal of the blogmap component from my weblog, I was left without any 'Web 2.0' functionality. Well, it…

Photosynth Tech Preview is available

20 years ago

The Photosynth technology is amazing. I have already started looking at the SDK and I am planning to use it…

About to buy a new phone

20 years ago

I am in the market for a new cell phone and I can't make up my mind. Some MUSTs (RFC…

eScience @ Microsoft blog

20 years ago

You may be interested in monitoring the eScience @ Microsoft blog where Dan Fay posts lots of interesting stuff. Soon, my…

Supercomputing conference (SC06)

20 years ago

I am going to be at SC06 from Sunday (Nov 12) to Friday (Nov 17). If you are going to…

Congratulations to Paul, Pete, and Debbie

20 years ago

I recently found out that Prof. Pete Lee, Jim's PhD supervisor and our HiPPO post-doc boss, has become the head of the…