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Decoupling the data from its presentation
If you have been following the development of the Windows Presendation Foundation, you’ve probably already heard about the New York Times reader, which has been around for a while. I am using it to read the New York Times and the experience is great. I would love to see somethng similar for BBC News online,…
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Tony Hey is interviewed by Richard Poynder
Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Technical Computing and also my manager :-), was recently interviewed by Richard Poynder. You can read about Tony‘s start as a physicist, his move to Computing Science, the UK e-Science program, about science and data, the Grid, supercomputers and clsuters, the Open Access movement, licenses, OpenXML, etc. Isn’t…
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Hans Rosling and gapminder
I was pointed to Hans Rosling‘s talk over at TED talks (RSS feed available). An excellent presentation by Prof. Rosling, which I highly recommend. It seems that Google has picked up on his work already. Here are the links: Gapminder (mentioned in the talk) and Google‘s gapminder. It’s interesting to see how the world through numbers.
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State machines for the MEP SSDL Protocol Framework
Patric has been doing some awesome work on introducing support for SSDL contracts, the MEP SSDL Protocol Framework in particular, to Windows Communication Foundation. Now Patric has a blog; go subscribe! In a recent message to the SSDL mailing list, Patric pointed to the protocol state machines for the message exchange patterns supported by both…
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Environmental Sciences
In my new role in Microsoft‘s Technical Computing group I get to work with scientists from all disciplines, which is very cool. I am particularly looking forward, though, to working with environmental scientists. Yesterday, Roger Barga, fellow Technical Computing Architect, and I visited the University of Washington to talk with Keith Grochow. I was very…
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Vancouver Half Marathon
My ultimate goal is to do a full marathon in around a year’s time. In preparing for that, I am going to do 2-3 more half-marathons. I just registered myself for the Vancouver Half Marathon in May. I am going to be more careful this time and since this seems to be a flat race…
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"Amateur"
I guess I am late in seeing this video (1.5 million other people have seen it already). I think it’s highly creative and very artistic.
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XNA Game Studio Express Released!
This is great news. I am looking forward to playing with it. To download the released product for Windows, head over to: http://msdn.com/xna/gse/. Full story.
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SOAP – "The S stands for Simple"
I guess I am always playing catch-up with blog posts these days. Anyway, I just read this one about SOAP and I think it’s brilliant. Interesting comments as well 🙂 Unfortunately, it’s soooo true 🙁
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Swivel – "YouTube for Data"
I was pointed to this post about Swivel, a new company aiming to collect the world’s data. Their business model? The service allows you to correlate data freely. The data you upload is available to everyone. But if you want to take advantage of the service without making your data available to others, then you…