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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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The 3D star browser in our VR facility
Old readers of my blog will know that I have been experimenting with Avalon by building a 3D star browser using the Sload Digitial Sky Survey data. I have ported the previous version of the StarBrowser to the Avalon March 2005 CTP but my laptop’s hardware cannot really cope so I have put the experiment on