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Our MIT SOC book chapter got accepted
Jim and I received good news about our submitted chapter to an upcoming MIT Press book on service-oriented computing. The feedback was very good. The chapter, entitled “Realising Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services”, focuses on architectural principles for building service-oriented systems and then moves on to discuss how Web Services technologies could be used according…
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WinFX Beta 1 RC (Indigo and Avalon)
I read today in the Indigo newsgroup that the Indigo and Avalon Beta 1 runtime is now available for download. This version will play nicely with the .NET version we get when VS.NET Beta 2 is installed. I successfully performed all the necessary uninstall/install steps and so now continue my tests with the latest bits.…
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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…