• Doh! Should be more careful when deleting spam messages.

    I receive so much spam. My Outlook filter does not catch everything so I am used to permanently deleting them by pressing Shift+Del. It’s become such a routine that sometimes I accidentally delete non-spam messages and there is no way to get them back. I hate spam. It’s ok when the message is from someone…

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  • Don Box on Objects and Services

    Don Box talks about services and objects.

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  • Cool… a Mars rovers blog…

    You can find it here (subscribed!).

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  • Mark Baker refers to our WS-GAF document

    Mark Baker discovered our work on the Web Services Grid Application Framework (WS-GAF) and he thinks it’s interesting. I am glad. We think our work from back in August was influential in all the recent changes in the Grid community world (i.e., making WS-RF Web Services-friendly and moving away from OGSI) although no one mentioned…

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  • Dare Obasanjo on “Service Oriented Architectures vs. Distributed Object Technologies”

    Dare Obasanjo comments on a James Robertson’s post entitled “MS to Objects: ‘Drop Dead’”. Then James Robertson responded. I found these links from Mark Baker’s weblog where he provides his view on the above. I am sympathetic to Mark’s views despite the fact he sees things through a REST perspective. I agree with Dare’s comments.…

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  • 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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