PDC day three - MSR and SDS
the morning keynote was presented by Rick Rashid of Microsoft Research. pretty good. must say i was a bit surprised to see that MSFT spent 90 minutes on the MSR team. and 1/2 of that was Rashid giving an "intro-to and justification-of" MSR speech. i noticed folks were streaming in/out of the talk throughout the morning. oh, well.
the other talk i attended was teh SDS futures talk. pretty good there. one of the things i learned is that SDS now supports the Astoria interface. this returns Atom and JSON serilizations of the existing SDS data stores. that's nice. now you can get Atom, JSON, and SDS-POX formats of the same data. but...
the Atom and JSON services using a different URI (has /adods/ in the URI). also, and this really annoying, the query language for Atom and JSON is different. so - as it currently stands - there is no simple way to control representations via MIME types. that's bad.
i'm not sure if/when SDS plans to 'normalize' the query language or URI space. until then, SDS will continue to drift away from REST-ful usability and nearer to MSFT-only solutions.