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“Scholarly Communications” Group on Facebook and at the OCLC Mashathon event
Lee Dirks just created a “Scholarly Communications” group on Facebook. Most of my work while I was in Microsoft Research was associated/supported by Lee’s group. Lee and Alex Wade are doing an amazing job. They have so many ideas on how technologies could support the work of scholars and they are delivering tools/services on so…
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Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF)
I am really happy to see the MBF project being announced to the public. When Simon Mercer of External Research first told me about what he wanted to do (that was last year, when I was still working for External Research), I got very excited. I got to review his plans and became a big…
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Restfulie
Guilherme Silveria and Cau Guerra are at it again. Great stuff guys! I can’t wait for our book to finish so that everyone can check out our discussion of hypermedia and the stuff we’ve built. It’s really great to see Restfulie taking a very similar approach to ours. Here’s Jim‘s post on Restfulie. Guilherme Silveria…
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A weekend in New York
I spent last weekend in New York. I looooove this city. Every time I visit, I am falling more and more in love with it. I don’t know what’s ahead in my personal/professional life but after my current gig I would seriously consider a move there. We’ll see. The “excuse” for this quick trip was…
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Restbucks hypermedia client? 🙂
Wow… our book is not complete yet and folks have already started writing code based on our examples? 🙂 I just read on Jim‘s blog that Guilherme Silveira, Adriano Almeida, and Lucas Cavalcanti have been doing some good work in this space. Very very cool. Excellent job! Now guys… we also have a DSL for…
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When patterns and frameworks get the job done
I loooove good technical arguments. Over the last couple of years, I have stayed out of the community discussions around REST, Web Services, SOA, Grid, and all that. This was a conscious decision on my part. I much prefer to focus on building technology rather than arguing about it 🙂 However, I still enjoy monitoring…
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U2 concert in Vancouver
What a wonderful wonderful experience that was! We had a blast! I left work early to get to Vancouver with 1 1/2 hours to spare so that I could have dinner with my friends before the Black Eyed Peas who were opening for U2. Unfortunately, I hadn’t calculated the traffic at the tunnel before Vancouver,…
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Ed’s birthday party
On Friday, my neighbors Janet and Ed threw a party for Ed’s birthday at Sole Repair in Capitol Hill. They always know how to throw a good party 🙂 It was an absolute blast. The theme was “Xenophilia = love of the strange”. It was so great to see all the different colors and how…
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Seattle colors
Seattle is sooooo beautiful at this time of the year. I’ve been carrying my camera with me the last week or so and taking photographs of the colors and the rapidly changing landscape. This is a sunset from my balcony… The top of the Queen Anne hill, where I live, is gorgeous…
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Moby at the Showbox
I went to Moby‘s concert here in Seattle yesterday. It was absolutely great. I don’t know whether it was the music, the dancing (lots of jumping :-), the vibe, the wine + beers that we had beforehand, or the combination of all but I had an amazing time. I loved Moby’s statements of the obvious…