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RIP nsp20
It was October 1st, 1995 when I started my MSc. degree at the University of Newcastle and when I was given the ‘nsp20’ handle which I used for more than 10 years. My account at the Newcastle systems didn’t expire immediately after my departure back in August because there were discussions about a possible “Visiting Research Fellow” post.…
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Seattle throughout the day
Dawn Afternoon Night And the sunset from Alki beach…
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When control flow semantics leak
Interesting comments by Mark on my last post (in case you don’t follow my comments).
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POX using WCF
For those of you who don’t like doing messaging in the ‘http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/’ or ‘http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope’ namespaces (SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 for the XML-impaired), here’s something exciting in the Atlas + WCF space. (via Steve)
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Web Services systems management and the Grid
Last week, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Intel published a roadmap document about converging their WS specifications in the resource-orientation, events, and systems management space. There has already been some commentary about the roadmap (Ian Foster‘s “The Holy Grail: Industry-Wide System Management Standards at Last?”, Jim‘s “The Emperor’s Second Set of New Clothes is Gone“, and…
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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…