• Amazon S3

    Very interesting service. I am curious to see how it’s going to do commercially, especially given the free availability of GoogleBase (although mechanisms for programmatic interaction with the GoogleBase service have not been published yet, at least not ones that I am aware of). It’s interesting to note the service’s design. They provide both HTTP- (REST…

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  • Oh no!!! No traveling for 2-4 months!

    What can you do to someone who lives to travel?… Tell them that they are not allowed to travel!!! I am currently in the US on an O-1 visa. Microsoft has started the process for my green card application only a couple of months after my arrival. What I didn’t realize was that once the…

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  • “Behind the Code” with Jim Gray

    Few months ago, the “Behind the Code” show featuring Jim Gray was shot at the Microsoft studios. I had the honor of being part of the small audience. As always, Jim was great. The show is about Jim and his professional life rather than a specific technology topic. Highly recommended.

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  • “The Greatest Ajax UI”

    Scott‘s Ajax UI 🙂 (via Dennis)

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  • Messages and events again

    After reading the comments by Mark Little and Mark Baker on Jim’s post (refer to my previous entry too), I wanted to say more on the subject… I don’t really agree with the use of the term ‘event’ as an architectural construct. While Jim and I promoted the use of the event abstraction as a programming…

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  • Messaging and events

    He he he 🙂 I saw this post on messaging and events (via Jim) and I was amused. The chapter we wrote almost 1 1/2 years ago for a book on service-orientation (I think the book should be published soon) dealt with exactly this approach. In fact, in there we talked about the importance of…

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  • “Love Monkey” 🙁

    One of the very few shows I watch on the US TV (Love Monkey) has been cancelled 🙁 I can’t understand. They had a great concept of guest musicians, the main character was a Bob Dylan fun (plus many great artists got mentioned during the show), they had great original music, the show was refreshingly different.…

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  • Chapter-proposals for “Securing Web Services” deadline extended

    The “Securing Web Services: Practical Usage of Standards and Specifications” book looks like a very good opportunity to publish your work in the area of Web Services security. The deadline for chapter proposals has been extended till March 24. Panos (the editor) has been doing some excellent work on security for the GOLD project so I…

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  • “Post-Modern”

    Woke up this morning with fever. On Friday we finished a milestone for our project and presented it internally. It went great. However, instead of sleeping all weekend as a way to ‘relax’ from the team’s last sprint, I did the exact opposite. I went out on Friday night for dinner with friends. Dave Ingham, who turned…

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