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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…
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A brief note on contracts and XML-OO mapping
I am a supporter of using tools where appropriate and making the development experience as pleasant as possible. There has been lots of discussion on XML-OO mappings (Google is your friend if you want to find more) and this post adds to it. I don’t have a problem with using object-oriented languages for building contracts.…
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3 weeks on the road
I am off tomorrow on a crazy 3-week-long trip: Tomorrow I am flying to Oslo where I am giving the keynote at the “Workshop on Web and Grid Services for Scientific Data Analysis (WAGSSDA)”. I am planning to talk about White Dwarfs, data integration and web services, a little bit about modelling in distributed systems…
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Intel inside an Apple
This is big news. Apple is moving to Intel. The blogosphere and the tech-news sites have gone mad. (image from www.spiegel.de 🙂
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Referral spam – How annoying!
My weblog has been getting hundreds of spam referrals per day from poker and casino sites. I don’t know what prompted this but it just won’t stop. And to think that I hate gambling!!! Grrr! Does anyone have an idea how to tell them to stop using their crawler on my site? The IP address…
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Web Services platforms – Comparisons?
Hey all. Our bioinformatics group has been using Axis 1.1 for some time now and they have been pushing it to its limits in terms of performance (i.e. size of messages it can handle and number of messages per second). I have advised them to consider other Java (unfortunately they can’t move to .NET) Web…
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The Coderoom: Reality TV meets geeks?
I read about the Coderoom in few blogs and then Simon also emailed me a link to it. There are two episodes now. Very geeky 🙂
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StarBrowser3D in Avalon Beta 1 RC video
After few months of not really having touched Avalon, I spent sometime with it yesterday while on the train. I ported my StarBrowser3D to the latest bits. For a screenshot, links to previous posts, and information about the StarBrowser have a look at the “An updated view of the current state of the 3D Star…