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Savas in a skirt and on a donkey 🙂
Well, after feeling extremely honored as a result of the Visiting Professor appointment, I thought it might be good to bring myself down to earth as fast as possible. So I asked my family to send me few photographs from my childhood. It’s always good for one to remember one’s humble beginnings 🙂 My brother…
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Professor Savas Parastatidis 🙂
I arrived at home after a fantastic weekend in New York. Since my cell phone had run out of battery while I was still at the JFK airport, I was only able to check my email after I got home. The first message in my mailbox: Subject: Professor Savas Parastatidis From: Paul Watson Hi Prof,…
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“Breaking the code”
I love going to the theatre and I try to go often. Earlier tonight I saw a play that I particularly enjoyed. I went to see “Breaking the code“, a play by Hugh Whitemore about Alan Turing. I loved the script and the local production in one of Seattle’s many small theaters, the Erickson. How…
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Wishful thinking…
Few interesting things happened today: I received my copy of “REST in Practice“. It wasn’t as a big moment as when my PhD thesis was printed (despite Jim‘s attempts to stress me out at the final moment with his “tick tock tick” soundtrack) but it was still quite a significant one. It felt great to…
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You are one (or more 🙂 tweets away from a free eBook of “REST in Practice”
As we announced last week, we are going to be giving away free copies of “REST in Practice” as a way of celebrating its September 24th release. After this post, every entry in the #RESTinPractice tweet stream will be saved for a period of few weeks. Every 3-4 days we’ll be drawing a random tweet…
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How to get a free copy of “REST in Practice”
With the release of “REST in Practice” only a couple of weeks away, we asked O’Reilly to let us give few copies away 🙂 We just love giving things away 🙂 So, here’s what to expect: Jim and Ian are always busy with traveling around the globe talking about REST, enterprise integration, SOA, Web Services,…
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“REST in Practice” at a University near you and some fun
A couple of days ago, O’Reilly sent “REST in Practice” to the (e-)printers*. It was a great milestone for Jim, Ian, and me; the end of a long road. The target date for the book’s release date is September 24th (yes, of this year 🙂 a sample from the slidedeck, as discussed in “REST…
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Glastonbury 2010!!!
Another June, another Glastonbury 🙂 This year, however, it didn’t rain! The weather was amazing. The festival was amazing! I do think that it gets better and better with every year. Well, I am surely enjoying it more. I’ve been going since 2004 and, still, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it. This…
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Activities, travels, and music
It’s been two months since my last travel/music post. I am in a hotel in Athens waiting for the hours to go by before my return flights to Seattle tomorrow so I thought of recording some of my activities/travel/festival highlights over the last couple of months. There was that May dual sport ride and a…
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Great farewell note by J Allard
Sad day today at “the borg”. I really liked Robbie Bach’s and J Allard’s styles. I am sure they have their reasons (the ones they talk about and those that they keep to themselves) for leaving the collective. I liked J Allard’s farewell message. I couldn’t agree more with the last paragraph, especially the note…