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Call for Paper for a special issue on ‘Middleware for Web Services’
Oops… My apologies for not posting this earlier but it escaped my attention. There is a very interesting call for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management on ‘Middleware for Web Services’. Consider reporting your work to this; you still have time!
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SSDL in IEEE Internet Computing
As Jim already mentioned, our IEEE Internet Computing article about SSDL is now published (also available online). I am really interested in the reaction and comments (if any) from the Web Services community. Who knows? Perhaps we could make a difference (I can always dream:-) The article has been heavily edited to match the magazine’s…
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Happy 2006 everyone
Happy New Year Everyone! It was a dream celebration for us. 2006 found us on a catamaran in the Sydney harbor watching the fantastic fireworks display in a clear Sydney sky. The stars, the atmosphere, the fireworks, the city, the people… everything was perfect. Here’s a shot of Sydney as the sun was setting. Unfortunately…
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Landed in Australia
Few hours ago I landed in Australia. It’s soooooooo nice to see Jim and Kath again! I missed them. I am staying for a couple of nights with them before the rest of their friends and family join us. I am then moving to an apartment by Bondi beach with some of Jim’s and Kath’s friends.…
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“PM skills” a la Chris Sells
If you ever want to work for Microsoft as a Program Manager (PM), or if you are already in Microsoft as a PM, or if you have similar responsibilities in another company, then check out Chris Sells‘ blog where he started posting his list of skills a PM should have (PM Skill #0 and PM Skill #1…
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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
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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…