• 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…

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  • Mark Little is blogging

    It was about time. Mark Little is blogging (subscribed). Expect great stuff here. Mark is Mr. Transactions guy and only few others around the world have his knowledge on CORBA. He was my manager during my HP Arjuna Labs days when we developed the first transactions system for Web Services. Jim continued to work with…

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  • Microsoft Academic Days in Prague

    I arrived today in Prague. Really beautiful city. I am here for the Microsoft Academic Days 2004 for Central and Eastern Europe. I was invited my Microsoft to talk about our work in Newcastle on Internet-scale computing (a.k.a. Grid). There are about 250 delegates here. I noticed today that the speakers wear on of those…

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  • Microsoft Research Fellowship @ Cambridge

    Microsoft Research is funding a fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the area of e-Science. Here’s the official announcement. I think this is a great opportunity for a young researcher to pursue her/his interests in the area. Few years ago I would have applied for this without thinking twice (whether I would have been…

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