• 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.

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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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