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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…
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WS-Coordination, WS-AT, WS-BA updated
Many have reported that the WS-Coordination, WS-AT, and WS-BA specs have been updated which cool. Jorgen says that this is hopefully their final update before going to OASIS which is also cool. Now, when we reach OASIS, how about making sure that there is a single set of coordination/transactions-related specs? I am sure (well, I hope)…
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Dynasoar and Virtual Machines (part 2 – The .NET prototype implementation)
Part 1 of this two-part post briefly introduced Dynasoar and how Virtual Machines could be used as the unit for service deployment. As Tim Freeman correctly pointed out in his comment, there is plenty of VM-related work out there. I didn’t want to suggest that our work on VMs was unique; not at all. We…
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WS-Addressing becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation
Well done to Mark and the rest of the group for a job well done! It took much much longer than expected but such is life in standards committees. The two W3C candidate recommendations: WS-Addressing Core WS-Addressing SOAP binding We have until November 1 this year to submit comments. So, start reading everyone! Update: Corrected…
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pblog update
I’ve started HTML-encoding the blog’s title in the RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 feeds that pblog generates. I did this because RSS Bandit had a problem with the title of my blog (“<savas:blog />”). Please let me know if your aggregator has problems with this (i.e. if the title appears as “<savas:blog />”). Thanks! I…
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Dragon Boat race @ Newcastle
There was a Dragon Boat race yesterday on the Tyne (the river that goes through Newcastle… hence, “Newcastle upon Tyne” 🙂 Some 21 people, mostly from Computing Science, formed the University of Newcastle “Dragon & Drop” team 🙂 None of us were rowers. We did it just for the fun of it. There were around…
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Jim on MEST/SSDL
I just noticed that Jim is going to be talking about MEST and SSDL. If you happen to be around Sydney on September 7, don’t miss this. Jim is an excellent speaker. BTW, it’s time for the long-promised MEST paper. Jim and I decided to start the work on it this week. We’ll keep you posted.