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Quake
My thoughts are with all of those suffering from the quake devastation. Please consider making a donation to help with the relief efforts.
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GeoURL
Register the location of your blog. Daniel just IMed about the effort he started (after an existing service was discontinued).
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A BackgroundWorker for Avalon
I saw a post at the winfx.avalon newsgroup about the lack of support for a BackgroundWorker in Avalon (at least for v1.0). Since I need something like this for calling the Web Services asynchronously and then updating the Graphical User Interface, I just created a very simple one. public class BackgroundWorker { private UIContext…
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3D Star Browser in Avalon (continued)
The experiments with Avalon and the Galaxy visualisation continue. Here’s a screenshot of ~78000 objects loaded into Avalon . The gold stars are the ~5000 of the personal version of SSA while the ~73000 are the stars from the personal version of the SDSS (MySkyServer). Waiting from Bob Mann (a great guy and the astronomer who…
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Moving behaviour from the endpoint to protocols
In case you do not follow the comments on my blog posts, here’s another great one about moving the behaviour from the endpoint by Michi and my response (almost agreeing! 🙂 Of course I am not suggesting that we completely move to a world where all applications are built using the principles of service-orientation; only…
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Avalon and a 3D Star Browser
As I previously mentioned, I’ve been experimenting with Avalon. As a toy application, I am developing a 3D star browser for our galaxy. The idea is to get the information for the stars from one of the scientific archives (SDSS or SSA) and display it in 3D. Last summer my student Rumesh Machap (the best…
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More on service-orientation
Just pointing to a couple of great posts, compatible with and adding lots more to the views I expressed in the “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” and “Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies” posts: – Benjamin Mitchell‘s summary of a presentation he gave. – Steve Maine‘s “SOA…
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Comparing S-O and O-O as design principles and not as implementation technologies
Michi Henning made some very interesting comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” post. Before going into the specifics of Michi‘s comments, please allow me to emphasize that nothing from what I have been arguing is about CORBA or DCOM or any other distributed objects technology. I am just trying to identify…
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Michi Henning comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” post
Michi Henning had some comments on my “Loose-coupling through the relaxation of endpoint assumptions” entry but pblog had trouble accepting them due to an ASP.NET safeguard (not accepting XML elements in a textbox from HTTP POST). I will fix this and will also allow formatting for comments so that long comments like this will not…
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An apology to Greg Goth
I owe an apology to Greg Goth. Greg took offence with my comment that he got it wrong about Jim being a lecturer in this interview (btw… Jim‘s bio). Greg posted a transcript of his chat with Jim and he’s right. Although I am sure that Jim had something else in mind I appreciate that Greg had no…