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Skiing season started early
It was a fantastic first day of skiing at Crystal Mountain! Dennis and friends were there too. Had a blast! (photo from Crystal Mountain‘s photo gallery)
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3D Mashups!
Great 3D mashup. Combination of geology and morphology. via the Virtual Earth blog.
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Grid Evolution vs Grid Intelligent Design
(Disclaimer: As with everything that is posted on this blog, these are my personal opinions and not those of my employer or my direct manager 🙂 As a result of the recent post on Web Fundamentalism by Ian Foster, with whom I had a very interesting conversation over breakfast at SC06, I have been considering whether my thoughts on…
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Seattle Half-Marathon
So, after months of training (I had to start from zero), I finally did the Seattle Half-Marathon this morning. Time: 2.01′ 🙁 Not even close to the 1.45′ I was aiming for but given the circumstances I am not dissapointed. It was cold (it was actually snowing at 6.30am, when I woke up, and it’s snowing again…
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WWW2007 submissions to the WS track
I just logged in on the WWW 2007‘s EasyChair site in order to bid for papers I would ideally like to review, as part of my Program Committee duties for the Web Services track. I saw few papers there related to Web Service choreography and modeling of message-oriented interactions. I am really happy that this…
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Open Specification Promise: What. How. Why.
This is great for those building protocol-based integration solutions. ?Recently, Microsoft announced a new type of licensing model aimed at making it much easier, therefore safer from a legal point of view, for developers to implement specs without having to spend a lot of time understanding complex license agreements and obscure legalese, then signing and…
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No laptop for a week 🙁
I got my first laptop in the late 90s and very soon it became my main work machine. Apart from some issues Jim and I had with Dell laptops back then, I don’t remember if there was ever a time I was left without one (during working days, of course… I am known to take time…
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Another great example of a ‘Web 2.0’ application…
… This time not hosted in a browser though. Here’s a screenshot of an Outlook 2007 appointment with the Outlook addon for Internet mapping installed. Since I have the VirtualEarth for local.live.com installed, I can also see my locations in 3D. This is just fantastic! Ok, perhaps I am lying a bit when I say…
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Great AJAX application != REST application
YourMinis.com is another example of how the ECMAScript platform together with XML over HTTP can be used to do great stuff. I am running the RTM version of Vista and IE 7.0 so I don’t know if this site works with all browsers but it’s really fast on my machine and very impressive. Good looking too. Now,…
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My weblog is ‘Web 2.0’-enabled 🙂
After the removal of the blogmap component from my weblog, I was left without any ‘Web 2.0’ functionality. Well, it was time that this was fixed. You can now find the Windows Live Search Siteowner component on every page of my little Web corner. This little gem will search only my blog posts and the rest of…