Archive for January 31st, 2007

I’m tired of travel

Published January 31, 2007 Other Leave a Comment

Being gone on work trips two weeks in December and two weeks in January have burned me out on travel (though the almost two weeks in Hawaii in the middle helped resurrect my sanity).

I was supposed to be at the CalConnect meeting in Provo at Novell this week, and people had asked me to come to net@edu and CNI, and I was registered for O’Reilly ETech conference in March, and I did want to attend SXSW this year… but I’ve decided to skip them all and stay home and get some work done and spend as much time as I can with my family.

I’ve volunteered to be on the Program Committee for Educause 08 (in Orlando – ugh) so I’ll probably have to travel to the initial meeting of that group in April, and I’ve got an IT Leaders Program meeting in May in Minneapolis. But it’ll be good to have a few months at home and stay out of airports and hotels!

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SOA Workshop with the Burton Group’s Pete Lacey

Published January 31, 2007 Technology Leave a Comment

A group of 30 of us from the UW are spending a couple of days at a workshop on Service Oriented Architecture presented by Pete Lacey from the Burton Group.

It’s a high level overview of a lot of detailed technical concepts, but it’s very useful, and should provide a common starting point for a group of us who are likely to be discussing implementation of services orientation in the technical framework of the UW.

Interestingly enough, while the material in the Burton presentation is almost entirely oriented towards the use of SOAP to implement web services, Pete was surprised to find that we’re also interested in ReST style interfaces. He says we’re the first group he’s given this workshop to that’s even knowledgeable about the SOAP/ReST discussions, and (happily for us), he really knows this area like the back of his hand. He’s an self-acknowledged ReST partisan, being the author of the much-cited S Stands for Simple.

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