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Michi Henning’s comment formatted
Here’s Michi’s comment to my last post with the formatting preserved: Savas, my five cents worth, as usual… > We are even starting seeing hardware products to help with XML processing. Now, *that’s* really quite something. Translation: “The processing overheads of SOAP are so staggeringly high that the only way to get acceptable performance is…
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“Smart people defending bad ideas”?
In a recent post, Jim argued that SOAP performance is getting better and linked to a couple of articles presenting performance measurements. Of course everyone agrees that processing an XML document has its overheads. And of course, SOAP messages are XML documents. Michi Henning commented on Jim‘s post arguing in favour of ICE and its…
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Thanks to everyone
Thanks to everyone for all the comments and the private emails. I am really looking forward to the job at Microsoft and the big change in my personal life. Interesting times ahead. I am going to continue to blog about some of the Grid-related things I am still doing for Newcastle but the countdown has…
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Back from travelling
Just wanted to break my recent silence. I am back from travelling. Glastonbury was FANTASTIC! Went to GGF 14 after that. I’ve been doing some interesting stuff with Virtual Server and Indigo while in Chicago. Expect a blog post soon. Today I spent most of my time converting all my personal CDs to MP3s. Wow!…
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Glastonbury time
I am switching off for 4 days while at the Glastonbury festival.
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The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything…
… is answered with a simple ’42’ as we all know from the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. And indeed, ‘42‘ is also the answer to the question for my next job’s location 🙂 I’ve mentioned in this blog a number of times that I was looking for a new adventure. After a long…
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Sean McGrath on “File Save as… XML”
Totally agree with Sean on this one.
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MEST at the HPTS workshop
I recently got the invitation to participate at the prestigious HPTS workshop. My position paper was on MEST vs REST and our approach to building the future Internet-scale applications. I don’t know yet whether I’ll be asked to present these ideas by giving a talk but to actually be at a by-invitation-only workshop amongst the…
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Formal objection against [reference parameters]
I hadn’t noticed this. It’s been almost a month since this message was posted to the WS-Addressing mailing list. I had a break from following the WS-Addressing discussions since I thought that the work there was almost done. There was a formal objection against the current SOAP binding of the [reference parameters] element information item.…
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Barcelona – a sad personal story
(If you are reading my blog just for the technical stuff, don’t read any further). In all the years I’ve been travelling, I’ve never been so absent-minded and unlucky at the same time. I arrived in Barcelona at 1.00am last night. Took a taxi from the airport as nothing else seemed to be available (I…