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Comega
Jim blogged about Xen and recommended the “Programming with Rectangles, Triangles, and Circles” paper, which is really interesting. I have been following the development of “Xen”, then “X#”, and now “Comega” for some time. Few months ago I attended the “Modern Concurrency Abstractions for C#” presentation, a description of the polyphonic C# features, at NeSC.…
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Werner Vogels on asynchronicity
This is an interesting read on why “the world is asynchronous” by Werner Vogels.
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Jim on services as the evolution of components
As always, a great post from Jim: “From Objects, through Components, to Web Services”. I have to clarify that my discussion with Jim Gray, to which Jim referred, was not about architectural styles but rather about the usefulness and appropriateness of tools that hide the use of services and present a view (object-oriented in nature…
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Jim, REST, Resources, and Services
Those who know Jim and me well always wonder how we can possible work together and produce interesting work since we seem to constantly argue and disagree on things… from who’s the uglier of the two (I usually let him win on this one :-), on all things technology related. I really enjoy working with…
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Pat Helland’s web site
Pat Helland‘s web site is up and includes presentations/videos. Checkout out his blog post for more information.
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Travelling never stops
It seems that I am constantly on the road, which is cool because I like travelling and meeting people. I just got back from two days in Brighton, UK, where I attended the JISCJoint Programmes Meeting. JISC funds half of our WS-GAF project (effectively they pay half of Jim‘s salary) so we were asked to…
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Jim is talking about message-orientation
If anyone happens to be in the Sydney area, I highly recommend Jim’s talk.
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WOW!!! WE WON!!!
Greece are the new European Champions in football!!! This is beyond everyone’s imagination!!! I can only imagine the celebrations that are now starting in Greece. The party will go on for days and days.
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Hurray… Greece are through to the final!!!
What a result. The Greek team had never ever won or even drew a game in a major tournament and now they are through to the final of the Euro 2004. Go Greece! I had promised my girlfriend that I would take us to Porto for the final if Greece went through. Start looking for…
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Love the message campaign
Service-orientation is all about services!!! 🙂 Services communicate through the exchange of messages. Hence, messages are important and the focus should be on their structure and their role into message exchange patterns. Service orientation promotes encapsulation, promotes boundary preservation. We shouldn’t allow details specific to our administrative domain to leak beyond our service boundaries. Web…