April 2008 - Savas Weblog - Microsoft Research Community

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...

Published 04-30-2008 3:29 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...

Published 04-29-2008 7:57 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...

Published 04-28-2008 9:37 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...

Published 04-25-2008 8:27 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...

Published 04-22-2008 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...

Published 04-22-2008 2:29 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...

Published 04-15-2008 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...

Published 04-08-2008 6:40 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...

Published 04-06-2008 6:08 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...

Published 04-04-2008 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...

Published 04-03-2008 7:18 AM by <savas:blog />

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