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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…
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The journey continues…
My “Visiting MS” post signified a turn into how I had been treating my exploration of job opportunities with regards to blog posting. That post attempted to capture the great time I had while being interviewed by Don, Oliver, Chris, et al. at building 42. I also suggested in the post that I was considering…
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SSDL v1.3 updates
I finally updated the SSDL site with the versions of the documents published as University of Newcastle upon Tyne Computing Science Technical Reports. Let me know of any problems.
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On description languages, REST, the Web, MEST, SSDL, and ‘declarative distributed computing’
This is very interesting! The W3C has started a mailing list (subscribed) to discuss Web description formats. Mark Nottingham is asking in his “Web Description at the W3C” post whether some Web Services folks are probably “seeing the light” about the Web. However, what if it is the other way around? What if it is…