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Jim has a new job
I didn’t want to say anything about Jim‘s new job since I was waiting for him to blog about it. Well, here it is! He’s going to be working for ThoughtWorksAustralia. I do hope that he’ll take all our ideas forward and prove them in the industrial setting. Hmmm… Should I be doing something similar?…
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Protocol integration!
The CoreGRID WP3 meeting in Pisa, Italy was not the success I was hoping it to be (at least for me since I am the only one disagreeing with the direction… the other partners seemed reasonably happy). It seems to me (I guess I am always a sceptic) that yet again we are re-inventing distributed…
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The end of the WS-GAF project
I just sent the following message to the ws-gaf mailing list. (WS-GAF project web site) Dear all, Happy New Year to all! This message is to let you know of the end of the WS-GAF project. Friday is our last day and Jim Webber will no longer be working for us. I would like to…
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To Pisa and Crete
I am off to Pisa, Italy for a CoreGRIDWP3 meeting and then to Crete, Greece for a workshop on Grid and P2P Architecture where I am going to give a 30 min talk on what we’ve been doing here as part of WS-GAF. In both meetings I am going to push the “Web Services are…
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Capturing a service conversation using Cw
Jim‘s post got me thinking… Wouldn’t it be nice to have Cw code generated automatically that captures the semantics of a Web Service contract? Please note that I am not talking about just converting WSDL to WebMethods and C#. We have something else in mind… We want to capture entire conversations and help the programmer…
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Reviewing papers for workshops, conferences, journals
Phew! I just finished reviewing 9 papers for the CCGrid 2005 conference. I got a good balance of interesting and “not-so-interesting” (to put it politely) papers. I spent a lot of hours over the last few days reviewing these papers (I am of the opinion that authors deserve thorough reviews because that’s what I expect…
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Busy with ??? and the WWW2005 tutorial
Just a quick post to say that I haven’t been blogging the last few days because I’ve been busy writing .NET/WSE code and XML documents. I am not ready to report on what Jim and I have been doing but we have both given some hints 🙂 (post 1, post 2) It’s going to be…
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An updated view of the current state of the 3D Star Browser in Avalon
Chris Sells referred to my early screenshots (post 1, post 2) and commented on the way the stars were lined up 🙂 There is a good reason the stars look like that in those screenshots. I was using the personal version of the SDSS DR1 data (MySkyServer) that only include few tens of thousands of stars from…
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Microsoft and distributed, high-performance computing
This article mentions Microsoft‘s unannounced efforts for “grid” computing. This sounds extremely interesting. I can’t wait to see more information about this. One of the things I want to concentrate as part of my research, now that WS-GAF is almost finished (White Dwarfs, CHEERS info soon), is the use of the .NET platform and Indigo…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR…
…to everyone. My thoughts are with all those affected by the Asia Quake disaster.