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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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East vs West side?
When I announced my decision to join Microsoft, Don Box asked the question: “East side or West side”? Well, the time to decide is not far now. I will be living in a Microsoft-provided flat for few weeks while trying to find my own place. I am thinking of renting for few months while I…
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Dare prefers SOA over REST
This recent post by Dare Obasanjo (whom I am hoping to get the chance to meet when I get to Microsoft) reminded me that I need to start preparing my MEST vs REST arguments for HPTS. I now know that because of my position paper on why service-orientation, and particularly MEST, is better suited for…
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Microsoft “Request for Proposals”
Dan Fay just pointed me to two very interesting “Request for Proposals” (RFPs). If you are into e-Science and data management you should check these out: Microsoft Research Smart Clients for eScience Request for Proposals Microsoft Research Digital Memories (Memex) Request for Proposals Here in Newcastle we have been working on ideas in both these…
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WS-Addressing and SOAP bindings
Finally, an interesting blogosphere discussion with the Web/REST folks, like the old days. This time the culprit is WS-Addressing and its SOAP binding. Mark sees a potential problem with WS-Addressing and the SOAP/HTTP binding. Jim added his thoughts and here are mine… I think that Mark misses an important aspect of WS-Addressing and its SOAP binding. When we populate…