• 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 out. I wish I could be there. As Christian says, “we care about messages…”!!! Indeed,it’s…

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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 post. I have joined the project and hope to dedicate some time to helping with…

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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 before; a fantastic city. After Germany I am off to Sardegna, Italy, for just one…

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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!” The second one says, “Bartender! Bartender! I want a drink too! blaaaaaaaaah Eeeeeeeek yaaaaaaak oooooooh.”…

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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 from Hawaii, I decided to have a go at implementing it using WSE 2.0. It…

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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 a done deal, and concentrate on the high-level services. The OGSA working group has a…

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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 previous post. As you can see from the picture, it’s not only work here in…

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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 we reached the limit of what we can do with existing Web Services specifications when…

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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 on the 6th (provisional program). Do come along if you are around. The papers presented…

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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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