• Fantastic! I wish I could be there!

    Flash Mob I: Creating an ad-hoc supercomputer! Thanks to Brian Randell for the link.

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  • The Spirit rover going to sleep…

    and then getting a wake up call from earth. Some info on how the software problem with the Spirit rover was fixed.

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  • Interesting read

    “When Not to Use an SOA” by Jason Bloomberg. This may be of special interest to those participating in the internal discussion on the relationship between service-orientation and object-orientation that is taking place within the school.

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  • Messaging and SOA

    I agree with John de Vadoss on this one.

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  • ObjectSpaces in Whidbey

    ObjectSpaces is an interesting addition to the next version of ADO.NET for Whidbey. Jim Webber (his blog is coming soon and hopefully he’ll help in improving my “pblog” engine… I hope he gets the hint!!!) and I started a project which we called the “DatabaseTier” long time ago. I still have the C# source code…

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  • High-order functions in C#

    I think my boss, Prof. Paul Watson, is going to enjoy this article which describes how one could program with high-level functions (as in functional programming) using some of the new features in C# 2.0.

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  • WS-FX

    Just found out that apache.org is working on WSFX (Web Services Functionality Extensions), which is an implementation of the WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security specifications. Great!

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  • In India

    Arrived in India. Fascinating place. Managed to get lost and get attacked by two dogs, in the first 2 hours of my first morning in Delhi 🙂

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  • Vogels on the three event-related WS specs

    Werner Vogels talks about the three specifications available today that provide notification-related functionality (his post).

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  • Comments by Eric and good arguments from Mark

    Few comments by Eric Newcomer in the Web Services Architecture (ex-)working group mailing list regarding the REST vs Web Services discussion that is going on over there. Also, Mark Baker replies to my previous post with some interesting arguments. I need to think about them. I agree with Eric that there is room for both…

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