• Anders Hejlsberg about C#

    I just read part VII of Anders Hejlsberg’s interview at artima.com about C#. This part is about generics in C#. His explanation on how C# generics are different from Java’s and C++’s is very interesting. The links to the previous parts are also provided at the beginning of the article. I only use C# these…

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  • “The Future of Grid and Web Services” and a chat with Steve Tuecke

    Just returned from a UK e-Science event on the “The Future of Grid and Web Services” that Malcolm Atkinson organised. It was very interesting. Some 90 people where there. Steve Tuecke presented WS-RF and their motivation. Afterwards, I was invited to participate in a discussion panel from which interesting comments were made. The panellists: Tony…

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  • Don Box on Object-Orientation

    Few comments by Don Box but not great deal of detail.

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  • Eric Newcomer on WS-RF again

    Eric identifies the intended use of WS-RF and WS-Context as their main difference (addressing of state vs interaction state management). I agree that WS-Addressing + local-to-the-service information is a way to identify explicitly exposed resources. But then we have to ask… What was wrong with URNs, URLs, OASIS XDI, etc? Why yet another way? Is…

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  • Related to my last post

    After I posted my previous entry, I read Jeff Frey’s response to one of Mark Little’s messages. Jeff’s message confirms my last post’s assertion about the tight-coupling of a resource’s state, its identity, and an interface. According to Jeff, they wanted to provide a network-wide pointer to a resource. How is this different from a…

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  • A brief thought on WS-RF

    My friend Jim from “down under” told me today over messenger that my blog is “more of a social diary than a blog”. So, here’s a thought on WS-RF with which I think he will agree… I think from now on the focus of the discussion is going to be on the conceptual model. WS-RF…

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  • SFMOMA

    In every city I visit, one of the first things I go to see is that city’s modern art museum. Due to other commitments, I only managed to visit San Francisco’s during my last day here. The “San Francisco Museum of Modern Art” is great. Really worth a visit. I really liked a montage by…

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  • Dinner with Mark Potts

    As I mentioned few days ago, I had dinner with Mark Potts from HP last night. It was really nice to see Mark again and find out how well he is doing. He totally deserves it. I was also glad to see that we are on the same page regarding Web Services, SOA, and the…

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  • More messages by Eric Newcomer and Mark Little

    Eric and Mark have been doing distributed computing for years. It’s great to see their comments (msg1, msg2, msg3) and I am glad that our views are the same as theirs. If people didn’t listen to our views, they may listen to Eric’s and Mark’s. It’s good to sit back for a change and look…

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