• Jim Gray Systems Lab

    While catching up with my blog reading, I found through James Hamilton‘s blog (an excellent one to monitor btw and I am lucky to read his Microsoft-internal version as well 🙂 that David DeWitt is joining Microsoft as a Technical Fellow to lead the Jim Gray Systems Lab.

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  • Oh dear… 3 Lesbians (people from the island of Lesbos) are suing

    For the moment I thought it was April 1st all over again. But it’s the last day of April, not the first. I read about the following piece of news in in.gr, the popular online news site in Greece. Three inhabitants of the island of Lesbos are suing the Greek Homosexual and Lesbian Community in…

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  • Jim on .NET Rocks

    It’s really funny to experience your pal’s rise to stardom 🙂 I hope that Jim doesn’t forget his humble origins and friends :-))) Due to the years we’ve been working separately, our rhetoric has slightly diverged. I personally see a service as an architectural abstraction for encapsulating some piece of functionality, no matter how coarse-grained.…

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  • Another one… Sasquatch! Festival

    Woo hoo… Just got tickets for another festival 🙂 Can’t wait to see REM again. Last time I saw them was back in 1996. Lots of interesting bands.

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  • Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1

    It’s been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight v1.1, I put some time today in re-implementing it in Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1. Enjoy.

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  • Working from Greece

    For the last two weeks I’ve been working from Greece, from my family home. It was sooooooo nice being close to family and friends again. I miss being there. I also took the opportunity to visit Istanbul. It’s crazy that I had never been there even though I grew up in a city which is…

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  • SOA – cohesion, granularity, coupling, rudeness… eh?

    Those who have been following my blog for the last few years know that I have stopped blogging about Service Oriented Architectures, SOAP, REST, etc. I would like to think that I have moved on, leaving the space for those who actually actively practice building systems in the enterprise. I personally prefer the cloud and…

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  • Paul Watson on Cloud Computing

    A great short interview with Paul Watson on what Cloud Computing is all about (on the BBC Radio Digital Planet).

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  • Asia Director for our Technical Computing team

    We are hiring again. This time it’s for our Asia Director position. Feel free to contact me directly and I’ll put you in touch with Daron Green, the Technical Computing @ Microsoft director. Alternatively, you could just submit your resume through the Microsoft Careers page. Oh… and if you are or know a student with…

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  • Glastonbury here we come!

    Tickets for the Glastonbury festival were out for sale today. Last year, I was only able to get tickets for Carole, Dave, and myself when they reissued some from the failed transactions. Back then, we had been trying for hours and hours but we couldn’t get through. We were prepared to go through a similar…

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