• Travelling ahead

    I am off to Sheffield for the myGrid integration fest tomorrow and then to San Francisco for GlobusWORLD and the GGF DAIS-WG face-to-face. I will be back in Newcastle on the 29th. These trips should give me the opportunity to do some more work on my blog engine and finish the papers I am working…

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  • Another interesting read on “Web Service Sublimation”

    “In a tightly-coupled system, the contract between two parties is very specific – message formats are strictly limited as to their content. In a loosely-coupled system, the contract between two parties is more flexibly – message formats are more flexible and extensible. Even with XML, if you want an application to be loosely-coupled, you have…

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  • “Every OS Sucks”

    Gets funnier towards the end. http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/video/ossuckscable.html~content from http://thoughtsonthinking.weblogger.com/2004/01/12

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  • Let the search for “White Dwarfs” begin

    The global-scale, distributed, Grid application that is going to be built using service-oriented concepts and the WS-GAF ideas is starting. The initial post to the mailing list was sent tonight. If you are interested, please feel free to subscribe to the mailing list and contribute to the discussions.

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  • LoTR and your PhD

    http://danny.oz.au/danny/humour/phd_lotr.html Thanks to Chris!

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  • “Horses for Courses” article by Jim and myself

    Our most recent article in the Web Services Journal is now available.

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  • My blog engine

    In order to educate myself, I decided to write my own blog engine. It’s driven by SQL Server and ASP.NET (written in C#). Unlike other blog engines that I tried, I decided that instead of having the engine controlling the structure of my website, I could create a couple of ASP.NET controls that a user…

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  • First post

    Welcome to my blog! This is my first post. I am still working on some of the features of my blog engine. Expect heavy work ahead. Basic functionality is there though. If you have any problems with the feed or the pages, please let me know at savas@parastatidis.name

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