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Blogs downtime and upgrade
Apologies to all who tried to access Jim‘s and mine blogs over the last couple of hours. I was doing maintenance work on our host server. We are now running on the RTM versions of .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 and Jim‘s blog is finally supported by the latest version of pblog, which means…
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live.com updated
Woo hoo! The live.com guys listened to my (and I am sure many others’) complaints and have improved the search user experience dramatically. Finally the search results occupy the entire browser surface. I am making it my default search engine now.
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About Web/Grid Services convergence
I have probably already blogged about the “Web/Grid Services convergence” marketing song that the Grid community has been singing since the introduction of WSRF. Jim Alateras‘ comment in my last entry made me want to write about it again 🙂 We wouldn’t even be talking about ‘convergence’ if the Grid community hadn’t followed a path…
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Modeling Web Services using OO and moving on
Here we go again. I started writing this as a comment-response to Enric‘s comment in my ‘OO Sucks’ post but it got too long so I thought of posting it as a separate entry. I have no problem with OO but I am always in favour of using the right tool for the right job. In…
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“OO sucks” 🙂
I met Dominic for the first time last night over dinner. I enjoyed talking to him. He’s doing a PhD in “programming models for Web Services”. We didn’t get very much into the details but I believe that any programming support for WS will have to include constructs for asynchronous, one-way messaging and conversations. I…
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Windows Desktop Search and MSN and Google “integration”
Here’s something fun: I was reading this guide on Windows Desktop Search (WDS) and how to make it search your intranet. Once the relevant policies are applied and WDS gets restarted, an ‘intranet’ search button appears. The idea is that you can point it to a SharePoint Portal Server that has an index of all of…
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SCUBA diving
Wooo hooo! After 4 days of continuous diving (two 3-hour pool sessions and 4 dives in cold waters) I am now a certified SCUBA diver 🙂 I am hoping to practice my newly acquired skills very soon since I am going to be visiting Jim in Australia in a couple of weeks time 🙂 I am tired…
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local.live.com
Wow! I am not sure whether local.live.com should have been released today (I thought it was going to be released tomorrow) but it seems to be reachable… Check out the bird’s eye views. Fantastic. This is building 42 at the Microsoft campus. UPDATE: I am sorry. The service is not available just yet. As this article…
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Smoke kills
An antitoon: ‘Smoke kills’ 🙂