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Cirque du Soleil
On Thursday I went to see Varekai, a Cirque du Soleil production. It was FANTASTIC. If you ever get the chance to see them live you should (I guess their other shows are equally or even better). I am going to try to go to Las Vegas just to see their “O” show which I’ve…
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REST here, REST there, REST everywhere. Where are the REST principles though?
It’s been a long time since I wrote about my views on a WS or SOA related topic. The “Simple JAVA and .NET SOA interoperability” article at InfoQ made me want to write something again. I can’t believe someone can write so many inaccuracies in a single article. I blame the use of the term…
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8 months in Microsoft
I haven’t been blogging lately and I haven’t been following your blogs either. I am now significantly reducing the number of blogs I am monitoring (~300 were too many) and also trying to better organize my time as part of a larger set of lifestyle changes that are coming up (read below). I have now…
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WS-Addressing a REC
The addressing specification for SOAP is finally a W3C REC! That took some time 🙂 Congrats to everyone involved!
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Brilliant adverts!
“Get a Mac” adverts.
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Blurring the boundaries between virtual reality and the real world
It’s not a surprise to see the boundaries being crossed. Sci-Fi writers have been writing about it for some time and over the last few years we’ve experienced technological advances in online gaming indicating the direction. Nevertheless, I still find BBC‘s account of the most recent development in this space a good read. This space…
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“Goal! Dream Begins”
I watched the “Soccer” 🙂 channel for a bit on cable and I saw the end of the interview with the producer of “Goal! The Dream Begins” which is the first movie of a trilogy with a football-related storyline. The producer mentioned Newcastle so I tried to find information about the movie. It seems that…
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Vista filesystem encryption an anti-Linux feature?
I don’t use my blog to defend Microsoft or any of its products. Even before I came to Redmond, I tried to stay away from any discussions/arguments related to Linux vs MacOS vs Windows. I started using Linux back in ’92 or ’93 and it served me well during my PhD work. I always supported…
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The safe/unsafe Web and what’s that X-Bender header?
It’s been very refreshing to see recent discussions about why/how the Web works moving away from the REST vs SOA argument, or POX vs WS, or how cool AJAX is. Here are few links to get you started: Don: “HTTP, XML, REST, and $100“, “coming out“, “spending the $100“, and “Sam’s two webs“ Sam: “Two Webs“…
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“Windows Live Academic Search” launched
The Windows Live Academic Search is finally online. They have some unique features compared to Google Scholar (BibTex and EndNote citations, “Sort by” option, abstracts, etc.). I know from an internal mailing list that they are actively tuning the relevance algorithm so the results should be even better. Together with Google Scholar, academics now have…