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Tutorial on WS at WWW2005
Hurray! Jim and I submitted a proposal for a tutorial on “Architecting and Developing Message-Oriented Web Services” for the 14th Internal World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005) and we have just found out that it got accepted. This is going to be a lot of fun. We have some really great ideas on how to approach…
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Globus to become part of Apache?
I saw this submission/proposal by Globus over at aparche.org. The Globus Alliance is proposing the creation of an Apache subproject for Grid computing with the Globus Toolkit as the basis. My first feeling was that this could be a good development for the Grid community but then I thought about the issue of standards and…
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Making WinFX work on a non-Luna themes
In one of the WinFX CTP articles it is noted that only the Luna/NormalColor theme is supported. In order to work with the other WindowsXP themes, there is a workaround. I just discovered that this workaround works with different themes too. On my laptop I have the Royale theme installed (yes, I know it’s only…
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Article on WSDL 2.0
Many are linking to the “WSDL 2: Just Say No” article by Rich Salz. Huge agreement!
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WS-Context made simple
If you’ve never understood my explanation of what WS-Context (part of WS-CAF) is all about, here’s a short description from Mark.
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Dave Orchard on Web Services vs Distributed Objects
I disagree with Dave‘s conclusions in his discussion on Web Services vs Distributed Objects. I have explained in my analysis of the differences between the HTTP verbs, remote method invocations, and message-orientation why I think there is a difference between service-, resource-, and object-orientation (Building blocks of architectural paradigms).
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Adding to Aaron’s WSE wish list
Aaron Skonnard posted his WSE 3.0 wish list. I meant to add to his list more than a week ago but didn’t get the chance. I will agree with Aaron’s and other people’s requests and I would like to add one of my own… Currently, if you change the addressing information of a SoapEnvelope while…
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Avalon/WinFX for WinXP Pro
Yupeeeeee!!! Last week I installed the WinHEC 2004 build of Longhorn (Client Preview 2) on a Virtual PC because I wanted to start playing with Avalon and Indigo again. The 1GB of memory on my laptop and the number of applications I usually run make life difficult performance-wise but today Microsoft had a surprise for…
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Interesting readings today
I had a fun morning reading some of the stuff around the web and close to home (Newcastle) but only now I got the chance to blog about them. By far the most important message to report was Jim Gray‘s views at the WS-GAF mailing list which confirmed our suggestions on how large-scale, scalable architectures…
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Microsoft Academic Days in Prague #2
Unfortunately Arvindra Sehmi couldn’t make it to the meeting. I was looking forward to meeting him and talking about FABRIQ. This also means that we are minus one talk for today so I have been asked to talk for more. They have a “speakers’ quite room” here :-). So I am here editing my slides…