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"How Do I Model State? Let Me Count the Ways"
Long time ago, in a galaxy far away… there was OGSI, there was WSRF, there was HTTP, there were services… and there were heated discussions 🙂 Ian Foster suggested that we write a paper together explaining our different approaches in building applications which deal with “state”. If my memory serves me well, that took place…
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Radiohead at the White River Amphitheater
I found last-minute tickets for the Radiohead gig at the White River Amphitheater last night. It was absolutely amazing; loved it! The venue is great and it was absolutely packed. Here are some photos… A panorama of the venue before they started. I experimented with my new Canon 40D but, for the first time in…
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
EBS is another great service from Amazon. The company continues to innovate. Werner had talked about this service in the past but now it’s available. Well done Amazon! The Amazon Web Services Blog has more. I found the pricing model interesting. While traffic from EC2 to S3 is free (unless you cross the Atlantic within…
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Chem4Word project
One of the projects on which I’ve been spending lots of my time is the Chem4Word one. Alex Wade is driving the project and just published a page for the world to see. The team over at the University of Cambridge is fantastic; a pleasure to work with. We are all very excited about the…
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Extending "Famulus" using arbitrary data models
“Famulus” has always been the codename for our “Research Output Repository Platform”, which I’ve discussed in previous posts. I am mentioning the codename in public for the first time only now because it makes the discussion of code samples so much easier. When we come up with the official name (I promise, we’re trying out…
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Tony Hey interviewed by Jon Udell
You can listen to the interview and/or read the transcript on “on10”.
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Having coding fun the Web 2.0 way
I’ve been working on a personal project for a month now. You’ll hear more about it in the coming months 🙂 As part of the coding part of the project, I’ve had to work against Google‘s authentication, YouTube, and GData APIs. Also, I’ve looked at creating a Facebook application and today I started working with…
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Our wonderful interns
Earlier this week I organized a BBQ gathering at my place for the great interns working with us this summer. I’ve been working with interns in two separate projects… Datacenter-related in collaboration with James Hamilton and Dan Reed‘s Data Center Futures team; “Semantics Summer of Fun” together with Evelyne Viegas. We’ve been very lucky with…
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Stunning visualization from the BBC
Paul Watson sent me a link to this short clip showing really stunning visualizations. I wonder whether we could reuse the technology for scientific data.
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F# for Scientists
I saw Tony Hey earlier this week holding the “F# for Scientists” book so I had to check it out. Very very cool! I love it that F# is being productized and will be soon in the hands of developers. I’ve been following its evolution and rise to a product for two years now.