• What’s a “good thing”

    It seems that not everyone agrees that the submission of specifications to W3C is a “good thing”. Please let me clarify what I mean by “good thing”. Do I agree with the resource-oriented nature of WS-Transfer as the underlying layer for service-oriented solutions? As older readers of this blog will already know, the answer is a…

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  • Amazon S3 – HTTP or Web Services: which is easier to use?

    According to Mark Baker most developers (85% vs 15%) will use the HTTP-based mechanisms for accessing the Amazon S3 service. This is because the “SOAP interface is comical”. I won’t try to support Amazon‘s design. That’s their job. I would like to make a comment from a developer’s point of view. As much as I…

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  • WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C

    Today a group of companies submitted WS-Transfer, WS-Eventing, and WS-Enumeration @ W3C. This is great for the Web Services community. Expect more good news in this space shortly.

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  • The Microsoft iPod video

    This video is so funny. According to Scoble, Microsoft has confirmed that it was responsible for the video. This is great. I always believed that the sense of humor starts from self-sarcasm. It’s refreshing. The iPodObserver has the story.

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  • 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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