Paul meets Bill Gates

Cloud Computing, the future of the North East, which is really exciting. This also reminds me of the talk Paul gave a couple of months ago at the Google Seattle Conference on Scalability on the subject of neuroscience and cloud computing, which was posted on youtube (courtesy of Frank here).

Session management is key to SOA

more to follow

Stack comparison

I found this Stack comparison summary very useful, when I was investigating the interoperability issues between different WS toolkits, i.e. what each toolkit supports or doesn’t support.

Some useful tutorials/articles/blog for CXF

Web Services with Spring 2.5 and Apache CXF 2.0

This articles poses an issue with passing complex types with the service. The author mentioned using Aegis will help with solving this problem. I haven’t tried it but I apparently had success sorting out the problem with JAXB binding. So this should be worth noting.

Lumidant Enterprise Web Development

“Simple” web services using CXF deployed in JBoss

Dealing with Array of Unbound Types

Organising papers on mac os

If you have lots of academic papers to organise on Mac OS, use this

Way back machine

Internet Archive… very nice tool to you want to look at things retrospectively..

XFire servlet class

If you ever want to follow this XFire guide, be sure to note one typo in web.xml file. The servlet class is XFireConfigurableServlet, not “Xfire…” as it stated. Otherwise it wouldn’t be found in the jar files in your classpath at runtime.

Statistical Protein Bioinformatics

Prof. Kanti V. Mardia from Leeds University gave an interesting seminar on Friday. The subject was about using Statistical Protein Bioinformatics to form a bridge between statistics and life science. It was certainly an innovative area of research for an inter-disciplinary issue and has great potential, though it looks to me that many statisticians are still having lots of concerns about the statistical solutions being proposed. I much like one of the comments in his slides, “scientists tend to always look for the exact solutions to a wrong problem, rather than the approximate solutions for an exact problem.”…

For those who are interested in this workshop in the area.

mildly confused

Courtesy of Georgios, these Xfire guides are brought to my attention,

XFire: The easy and simple way to develop web services
Client and Server stub generation from WSDL

After reading through them, they look so straightforward to me to use Xfire the develep/deploy services and then use the wsgen tool to generate clients, etc.

I shall have a go soon, though i still have some slight suspicion on couple of things mentioned in the first document,e.g. java version. I shall find out more about it once I have had a go.

One thing is that it looks to me it is not absolutely necessary to use Maven for these things. Then what is the main advantage using Maven for Xfire? I am not sure yet, will ask those Maven experts..

Visual Passwords

An interesting CS seminar was given by Karen Renaud from Glasgow University on Visual Passwords. I used to have done a bit research on online banking security issues. Image based passwords has definitely been a constantly mentioned mechanism to hopefully solve the problems that the traditional alphanumerics based passwords present. There is still a lot of research needs to be done in this area. I’d like to read some relevant papers once I have time.

Also today, I casted a vote at the Pret a Voter charity election. This e-voting system is looking good, but I haven’t really understood how the fundamental algorithm really works yet. Worth reading a bit more once I get a chance.