• Building a custom Indigo transport binding for dynamic endpoint resolution

    After my holidays and my trip to Seattle I am now finally slowly catching up with email and blogs. So, I once again had a little bit of time to have some fun with Indigo. (Expect more frequent posting from now on. Amongst other things, there has been lots of commentary on description languages for…

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  • Tetris Shelving

    What an excellent, geek-friendly idea 🙂 (Stratos, via email)

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  • Visiting MS

    I am at the Seattle Tacoma Airport waiting to get back to the UK. As I said in a previous post, I came to Seattle for a short visit. The reason?… An interview with Microsoft. I’ve already mentioned that I was planning to move on from Newcastle and that I was looking for new opportunities.…

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  • More good news for the WS-* story

    In addition to the single reliable-messaging story, there appears to be a similar development in the single sign-on space. Excellent news!

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  • Wil O’Mullane in Newcastle

    In early June Wil O’Mullane will be coming to visit us here in Newcastle and he’s also going to be giving a talk as part of our School’s colloquia series. I am really looking forward to seeing Wil again. He’s part of the team responsible for the SkyServer and the US National Virtual Observatory work.…

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  • WS-RX as an example for WS-TXs

    As I am catching up with blogs and industry news, I saw the announcement by OASIS that the new TC being formed (WS-RX) will result in a single story in the WS reliable-messaging space, effectively resulting in merge of the competing reliable-messaging specifications. This is great news. There is lots of commentary in technology news…

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  • Holidays over, back in the UK

    I am back in the UK. As I previously mentioned, I went to Greece for a couple of weeks of holidays. Unfortunately, as soon as I arrived there I had a big setback in my personal life:-( Family and friends were very supportive and they all helped in making sure that I had good time after that.…

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  • Just booked flights for two weeks of holidays and work in progress

    I haven’t had proper holidays for a long long time. So, Wednesday I am going back to Greece to visit my family and travel a bit around to see friends in various cities. It may be a while after this visit until I get the opportunity to do this again. As a result, my blog…

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  • Coactus – Good luck to Mark

    Coactus consultancy! Mark, perhaps a section on MEST and Web Services? 🙂

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  • What does “WS-I compliance” mean?

    Ever since we published our WS-GAF white paper criticizing OGSI, its object-oriented nature and how it (ab)used existing technologies (XML Schema and WSDL), there has been a lot of discussion in the Grid community about WS-I. You see, we’ve always advocated for Grid solutions to be built on stable, existing, widely-accepted technologies. We started promoting…

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