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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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Santosh is blogging
Woo hoo! I hadn’t realized. He should have told me (or he did and I forgot 🙁 Santosh Balasubramanian (hehe… someone with a more difficult last name than mine 🙂 is blogging! Santosh is the GREAT Program Manager with whom I’ve been working over the last few months. He works for the Advanced Development Team…
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Merging data graphs – myExperiment & Resource-Output Repository Platform
In a recent post, I briefly discussed our “research-output” repository platform and linked to a video of a demo visualization of the data graph stored in the repository. I had previously used the same WPF technology to visualize the myExperiment data graph. Since I’ve been talking about “data networks” a lot, I thought that it’d…
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At the Data Intensive Computing Symposium
Lots of clever people are gathered in Yahoo‘s headquarters for the first Data-Intensive Computing Symposium. I see lots of familiar faces and the program looks VERY interesting. I really liked Randy Bryant‘s change of his DISC term (PDF download)… Data-Intensive Super Computing -> Data-Intensive Scalable Computing 🙂
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Relationships can have properties as well
I was asked a very good question by the people who are going to be using our “research-output” platform. They want to be able to capture information like this: “Paper P was authored by Author A while A was a Microsoft employee”. The use case is obvious. In Microsoft, like any other organization, people come…
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"Article authoring" add-in for Office
If you write papers and you interact with publishers (especially in the bio field), I think you are going to like our thinking with this add-in for Office. It supports the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine, an easy way to collect metadata about the paper, and templates that publishers can provide…