• Post on “SOA is like the Night Sky”

    This post is by Microsoft‘s Pat Helland. Highly recommended.

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  • Mark Baker on Jim’s post

    Mark Baker comments on Jim’s recent post about “Service-orientation vs Resource-orientation” which included a diagram I created for our presentations. Mark seems to think that WS-RF‘s notion of a resource is the same as the one the web is using. Although this may be true, I personally see a difference. The web doesn’t use “types”…

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  • Interesting read

    If you are into CLR performance measurements, Rico Mariani‘s post comparing the performance of three ways of printing to a console is an interesting read. From Eric Gunnerson‘s blog.

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  • Template metaprogramming

    Here is a good explanation of what template metaprogramming is all about. This article reminded of Francisco Pereira because I remember discussing template metaprogramming with him years ago, when he was here in Newcastle. It was the feature that persuaded him about the benefits of C++ templates. Francisco is still in CS @ CMU. I…

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  • Interesting comments in a recent post

    There is an interesting exchange of comments to one of my recent blog entries on “Putting the operation name in body of a SOAP message”.

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  • Jim Webber on webservices.org

    Jim has been interviewed by Joe McKendrick as part of an article entitled “Analysis: Can You Spare a Cycle or Two? Grid Computing Moves Closer to Web Services” which appears on WebServices.org. Here’s Jim‘s blog post.

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  • A nice post in the OGSI::Lite mailing list about WS-GAF and our work

    This post is a month old but I didn’t know about it until Mark McKeown mentioned it yesterday during dinner (yes, we are still in Berlin). Mark announced a new release of OGSI::Lite that implements part of the WSRF suite of specifications. OGSI::Lite is a toolkit for building Grid applications written in Perl. You should…

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  • Nice article about Mono

    Here is a nice article about Mono. I’ve been using Mono for some time and I am very pleased with it. I am using it to run nip.net on Linux and I am hoping to have some performance results soon. Thanks to Paul Watson for the link.

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  • Mark responds but we still disagree

    Mark Baker comments on my recent entry about operation names in SOAP messages. After talking to Jim for a bit, I realised that my comments didn’t come out in the way I intended. So, just to clarify… It’s not that I was objecting on services mapping messages to operations. That’s entirely their business. I was…

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  • Steve Vinoski on WS-Addressing, WS-Events, and WS-Eventing

    You can find a link to his IEEE Internet Computing article from Steve Vinoski’sblog entry.

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