April 2008 - Posts

• Oh dear... 3 Lesbians (people from the island of Lesbos) are suing

  For the moment I thought it was April 1st all over again. But it's the last day of April, not the first. I read about the following piece of news in in.gr , the popular online news site in Greece. Three inhabitants of the island of Lesbos are suing the... Posted Apr 30 2008, 03:29 AM by <savas:blog />

• Jim on .NET Rocks

  It's really funny to experience your pal's rise to stardom :-) I hope that Jim doesn't forget his humble origins and friends :-))) Due to the years we've been working separately, our rhetoric has slightly diverged. I personally see a service as an architectural... Posted Apr 29 2008, 07:57 PM by <savas:blog />

• Another one... Sasquatch! Festival

  Woo hoo... Just got tickets for another festival :-) Can't wait to see REM again. Last time I saw them was back in 1996. Lots of interesting bands. Read More... Posted Apr 28 2008, 09:37 PM by <savas:blog />

• Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1

  It's been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight v1.1 , I put some time today in re-implementing it in Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1. Enjoy. Read More... Posted Apr 25 2008, 08:27 PM by <savas:blog />

• Working from Greece

  For the last two weeks I've been working from Greece, from my family home. It was sooooooo nice being close to family and friends again. I miss being there. I also took the opportunity to visit Istanbul. It's crazy that I had never been there... Posted Apr 22 2008, 10:54 PM by <savas:blog />

• SOA - cohesion, granularity, coupling, rudeness... eh?

  Those who have been following my blog for the last few years know that I have stopped blogging about Service Oriented Architectures, SOAP, REST, etc. I would like to think that I have moved on, leaving the space for those who actually actively practice... Posted Apr 22 2008, 02:29 PM by <savas:blog />

• Paul Watson on Cloud Computing

  A great short interview with Paul Watson on what Cloud Computing is all about (on the BBC Radio Digital Planet ). Read More... Posted Apr 15 2008, 12:33 PM by <savas:blog />

• Asia Director for our Technical Computing team

  We are hiring again. This time it's for our Asia Director position . Feel free to contact me directly and I'll put you in touch with Daron Green, the Technical Computing @ Microsoft director. Alternatively, you could just submit your resume through... Posted Apr 08 2008, 06:40 PM by <savas:blog />

• Glastonbury here we come!

  Tickets for the Glastonbury festival were out for sale today. Last year, I was only able to get tickets for Carole , Dave , and myself when they reissued some from the failed transactions. Back then, we had been trying for hours and hours but we couldn't... Posted Apr 06 2008, 06:08 PM by <savas:blog />

• Santosh is blogging

  Woo hoo! I hadn't realized. He should have told me (or he did and I forgot :-( Santosh Balasubramanian (hehe... someone with a more difficult last name than mine :-) is blogging! Santosh is the GREAT Program Manager with whom I've been working... Posted Apr 04 2008, 10:36 AM by <savas:blog />

• Merging data graphs - myExperiment & Resource-Output Repository Platform

  In a recent post, I briefly discussed our "research-output" repository platform and linked to a video of a demo visualization of the data graph stored in the repository in action . I had previously used the same WPF technology to visualize the... Posted Apr 03 2008, 07:18 AM by <savas:blog />