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First date at Microsoft (orientation)
I was surprised with the number of new recruits starting on the same date (3 digits and still bellow the average for a Monday!!!). Tim Russell of Human Resources was extremely enthusiastic and did an excellent job throughout the day. A great presenter. He managed to convey so much information to us (culture, benefits, security,…
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Mark Baker on an Ian Foster paper
Mark Baker picked up on an early draft of a paper about managing and accessing state that Prof. Ian Foster wrote some time ago and sent to a mailing list for comments. Paul Watson, Mark Mc Keown, and I are now co-authors on that paper (well, I hope our names are still there given that I haven’t…
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Seattle, I am here!
I have finally arrived! After a looooong journey, which lasted around 40 hours, I am now settled in a fantastic building in downtown Seattle, “The Olympus”. I had noticed this building during my previous visits here because it looked like a nice place to live but didn’t know how it was called. Imagine my surprise when…
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British Airways: “Not so fast…”
Well, next stop was supposed to be Seattle but thanks to British Airways I am still around 🙂 My flight from Newcastle to London was cancelled and as a result I have been stranded at Newcastle airport for the last 7 hours (all the other flights in between were fully booked). Of course I missed…
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Moving to Seattle
I’ve been very slow with blogging these days. Sorry all, I’ve been very busy with my move to Seattle and going out with friends and saying goodbyes. My last few days in Newcastle have been excellent. Even the weather was fantastic (I wasn’t expecting to ever say that for Newcastle 🙂 Today the movers picked…
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WEBSA 2006 CfP
I really don’t remember how I got into this Programme Committee but it does look like an interesting multi-conference and it’s IEEE sponsored. Please note the location 🙂 You can find the call for papers on the ICIW06 web site.
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Yes, it’s all about data but…
There has been a lot of commentary lately about “Web 2.0”, the future of the PC (thin vs fat clients), software as a service, etc. Many of our technology thought leaders rave about the ease by which new ideas are developed on top of Google‘s, MSN‘s, Yahoo!‘s and other similar Web-based services, the rapid adoption…
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Why I think AJAX breaks REST continued
There were some really good comments on my “Why I think AJAX breaks REST” post to which I tried to reply. The reason for this new post was Andrew Newman‘s comments. I disagree with Andrew on his assertion that REST is only about how services should be exposed. I think that REST is an architectural style…
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Last date in Newcastle: the end of an era
August 31 today; last day of the month and my last working day at the University. The time does go fast. It was 9 years and 11 months (not 10 years 🙂 since I first landed in Prof. Santosh Shrivastava‘s office for an interview. Few days later I started the advanced MSc course in Computer Software…
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More pblog updates
As previously promised, I worked on some more changes for pblog: The RSS 2.0 feed has moved. The previous link will continue to work though. If you are subscribed to my blog through the RSS 2.0 feed, you shouldn’t encounter any problems. The Atom 0.3 has moved. The previous link will continue to work. If…