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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…
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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…