• 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…

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  • Why I think AJAX breaks REST

    The recent interest in AJAX (or however else people prefer to call client-side applications hosted in web browsers) has made me thinking about its relation to REST. Its current popularity for building Web applications is indisputable since all major players in the Web applications space build and/or experiment with applications that make use of the…

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  • My guestmap

    Like Lindsay and Sam I now too have a guestmap. Please feel free to leave a comment and pin your location if you read this blog!

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  • MWS 2005: Call for participation

    The talks for the MWS 2005 workshop look interesting (and I am not just saying that because I am a member of the Program Committee). I am curious about the “WSODL – An Object-Oriented Specification for RPC-Based Web Services” one. Hmmm! I’ll be looking for the paper/presentation once it becomes available. What were they thinking? I see…

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  • The ACM Turing Lecture

    Yesterday and after I posted the sort entry with my views on MEST vs REST, Simon, Aad, Einar, and I watched the live webcast of the ACM Turing Lecture. This year the award was given to Vinton G. Cerf and Robert Kahn for their work on TCP/IP. It was an interesting lecture in the form of…

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