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Blog disclaimer coming
One thing I was planning to do as soon as I joined Microsoft, but haven’t got the chance to do so until now, is to write a disclaimer about my blog posts from now on. I am posting the disclaimer next as a separate post so I can link it separately. UPDATE: Apologies, I decided…
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The WS-* specifications
Great poster (via Stefan). Our industry WS-* leaders, and all of us (Web and Web Services advocates together), should have a good look at this poster and perhaps take a moment to reflect… where did all go wrong? Why are there specs doing the same thing in a slightly different way? Why some of the…
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MVP Summit next week
The 2005 MVP Global Summit is taking place next week (28 Sep – 1 Oct) here in Redmond. I know that some of you are going to be around and have already expressed an interest in getting together for dinner and/or drinks. So, how about you send me an email with your preferred night and…
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MEST and email no2
I thought that this was an interesting discussion that if was to be continued in my comments, many of you might miss it (I know how difficult it is to follow comments on blogs). Mark believes that I didn’t answer his question. Hmmm… Perhaps I didn’t understand the question then. I think that Internet mail…
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MEST and email
Mark Baker recently posted this question for us MEST folks: “how does MEST differ from the architectural style that would describe the architecture of Internet based email?” (please note that there is a more recent post entry on MEST, which does not explicitly talk about the confusing-to-some “process message” operation, from the one that Mark used). The…
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Save C# Petition
He he he :-))) Don suggests that there may be a petition to save C# from all the new features in the v3.0 timeframe (note to all: Don is joking). I am really looking forward to playing with all these new features! Functional programming, data/xml/etc query integration! Wayyyy cool. Perhaps C# could be the language that…
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One week in Seattle
A week has already gone! And it has been fantastic apart from the jetlag from which I have only now recovered (other times I traveled to the west coast it wasn’t this bad). Today (Sunday) the weather was excellent. I was walking around the city all day. Few silly tips if you ever decide to…
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End of a wonderful first week with a social event
Apparently there are quite a few of those here on the Microsoft campus where everyone gets together for a drink and some food. This time it was Greek food (I guess the word of my arrival was spread around :-). I met Becky Dias with whom I had interacted quite a few times when WSE…
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MS Research e-Science Workshop and GGF
As Dan Fey wrote in his blog, there is going to be an e-Science event here in Redmond early in October, the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop 2005. I will get the chance to meet some of my friends from the e-Science/Grid community and see Jim Gray again after HPTS. Also, Tony Hey is giving a…
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Welcome John!
John Bristowe joins Microsoft. Welcome John! (he he, I’ve only been here for five days and I have the nerve to welcome others! 🙂