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“Web Services and the Grid: Convergence to Utility Computing” conference
I am going to be giving one of the main talks during the first day of this event (24-27 May) in London. If you are planning to go, let me know since I have registration forms that will give you a discount.
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Too many trackbacks while testing 🙁
I’ve implemented full support for trackbacks in the pblog engine. However, due to a mistake while I was testing I may have sent few extra trackback notifications to some of the referenced posts from my existing entries. Those extra trackbacks were sent 3 days ago. My sincere apologies.
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A studentship available for PhD students outside the UK
This is from the announcement of a studentship for the UK all-hands meeting 2004 in which I am involved. The UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting is the flagship meeting for dissemination within the UK of its e-science activities. Last year’s meeting attracted over 450 attendees with demonstrations from the National and regional e-science centres,…
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Microsoft’s documents on SOA and the Grid fascination with modelling state
I just found the “Application Conceptual View” collection of documents on the Microsoft site. I think that everyone in the Grid community should read the introduction. Here’s how a service is described: “Software services are discrete units of application logic that expose message-based interfaces suitable for access across a network. Typically, services provide both the…
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On the REST verbs vs “processThis” discussion
Since I returned from my unplanned 5 days of holiday, I am only now catching up with my blog feeds. Jim wrote (“REST Advocates in Hit-and-Run Guerrilla Insurgency” and “Bill de h’ra Upbeat, Mark Baker Upbeat, I’m Upbeat?”) about our idea of treating services as entities that only support one imaginary verb called “processThis”, “processMessage”,…
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“Serializing an Object’s State != Serializing an Object”
This post by Dare Obasanjo makes an interesting read.
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More on “WSDL!=Object IDL” or “roundup revisited”
And the discussion continues. Following from Ted‘s blog entry, Steve Vinoskireplies. Also, following from Sean‘s “In a Swiss army knife, sometimes all you see is the knife” entry, Don Box gives his view in his “WSDL ?= IDL” post. Also, Steve Loughran wonders whether “WSDL+CORBA=WSRF?”. I agree with Steve’s points but I would like to…
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“Why WSDL is not yet another object IDL” roundup
When Jim and I started writing the “Why WSDL is not yet another object IDL” article back in November (submitted for publication in December 2003), we had no idea of the reaction it would cause. People with large history in distributed computing and in-depth knowledge of CORBA have criticized us for not really understanding the…
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pblog database schema changes and trackback support
I spent some time today playing with the pblog SQL Server database schema because I have some new features in mind I want to introduce in the future. One of the things I changed was the use of primary keys in the tables. At first it seemed like a very simple decision. I used an…
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My first spam comment!
It was going to happen sometime! A spam comment on one of my posts and I still haven’t released the trackback enabled version of the pblog engine.