• 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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  • Went skiing again!

    Woo hoo! After two winter seasons without skiing due to my knee injury (bad turn while playing basketball) and subsequent operation, I finally went to the slopes again today. It was fantastic. One of the best days of skiing I’ve ever had. Beautiful day; sunny, blue sky, not that cold, no queues at the lifts at…

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  • “Web” or “Grid” – Isn’t it ironic?

    For a long time I’ve been saying that the Grid is nothing but an application domain of distributed computing and that it needs no new infrastructure. Our latest paper supports this statement and proposes the use of stable infrastructure technologies (in the WS-* space) for realizing high-level, Grid application domain-specific services. Mark Baker suggested we…

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  • Geometry Wars on Xbox 360

    Wow, I am amazed! I can’t even score beyond 100,000 points in Geometry Wars when the game score leader has done 16,000,000!!! There is a video of his record setting game. Chris Anderson is already beyond 2,000,000! I have long way to go 🙂

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  • Funny CS quotes

    Simon sent around this link to computing-related quotes. Funny!

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