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November 2006 - Posts
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According to Mr. Rails himself, Amazon is getting in on the Rails fever . UnSpun is a Rails application that relies heavily on the Amazon Mechanical Turk Web Services . It allows you to "see the community consensus on what's the best or the worst, the scariest or the funniest, the tastiest or the dumbest, UnSpun provides the right amount of structure to make that possible". Once a list is created, its sent to the Amazon Mechanical Turk which helps get the list populated with items, as well as the Read More...
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I was surprised to find that System.Data.Dlinq.Table does't implement the INotifyCollectionChanged interface. Otherwise, it's IEnumerable implementation allows it to be conveniently bound to as a WPF data source. If only my UI could be notified of changes to the table it would actually be useful, particularly since the VS Dlinq designer is already automatically generating INotifyPropertyChanged code on the classes it creates for my db tables. Is there something inherently wrong with this or am I Read More...
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When can I start using LINQ in "production"? Not soon enough... Typed XML Programmer - Welcome to LINQ - I've been following Ralf's " Typed XML Programmer " series of blog posts and have been looking forward to some sort of release relating to XSD driven LINQ to XML. It looks like my wait is over! Now we just have to hope it makes it into the Orcas wave along with the rest of the LINQ goodness. DonXML has a post that outlines some job posts relating to PLINQ . I'm sure lots of interesting things Read More...
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Dare has an interesting post in response to Steve Jones " Want to be cool? Learn REST. Want a career? Learn WS ". Technorati tags: rest , ws , webservices Read More...
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Announcing the LINQ to XSD Preview Ever since PDC 2005, when XLinq was unleashed ( now called LINQ to XML ), we have been receiving questions about the possibility of a typed XML programming approach in the LINQ world . Not surprisingly, we have been pondering about this problem indeed. This was also mentioned in the XLinq overview . (Please, also see the “Typed XML programmer” series of blog posts.) For some time now we have been focusing incubation efforts on typed XML programming for LINQ. One Read More...
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Over the last year we've had a lot of internal discussions about the database platforms we intend to support for our software. One of the things that's come up time and time again is that our enterprise customers don't feel SQL Server is an "enterprise scale database". Given this, it shouldn't be all that surprising that I found this report comparing the security of Oracle and SQL Server very interesting . The conclusion is clear – if security robustness and a high degree of assurance are concerns Read More...
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“ Typed XML programmer, where have you have been in the last few weeks? ” This series of blog posts has been stuck because I attended a bunch of conferences and workshops, and I was really busy with an incubation project on typed XML programming (see later in this series ). I admit that I also worked on untyped XML programming -- the streaming part of it -- cool stuff … I will be writing about it when I get a chance. Executive summary XML programmer -- here is your scale of typing: Text. Syntactically Read More...
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Although XML wasn't officially released as a W3C Recommendation until February 1998, the effort that led to it began about 10 years ago. One recent anniversary is the first public working draft released on November 14, 1996. Another is its first public presentation at the SGML 1996 conference; the XML 2006 conference is being held and the same location and will include a retrospective by Jon Bosak , chair of the original XML WG. The IBM Systems Journal even has as special issue Celebrating 10 Years Read More...
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Hi, This code fails to run with a ParseException: The name 'Contains' is not a method. param = Expression.Parameter( typeof( T ), "" ); predicate = QueryExpression.Lambda( "Name.Contains(\"e\")", param ); Is this the correct syntax? Thanks, Charles Read More...
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Hi All, I have been playing around with creating dynamic queries using DLINQ/LINQ and whilst the functionality is great I have run into a problem. It revolves around creating a query using an existing object with nullable fields. Essentially I am trying to create a query that will check for duplicate values in the DB based upon an object I have in memory. The problem arrises when I try to construct the expression: object value = MyContact.GetType().GetProperty("Myproperty").GetValue(MyContact,null) Read More...
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Me neither, but Ryan Tomayko did. Lucky for us he captured it all in a nice blog post here: How I explained REST to My Wife tags: rest , webservices Read More...
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When learning a new programming language or framework there is nothing more valuable that having someone there along side you to help show you "the way". You, of course, need to make sure that person themselves knows the way, but once that's been done a tremendous amount of learning can occur by just observing "the way". If you are doing Ruby on Rails development you should definitely checkout The Rails Way . Jamis Buck and Michael Koziarski , who are both on the Rails core team, have just started Read More...
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Speaking of REST , it appears that the next version of Rails (1.2?) is going to have some nice built in support for accessing "resources" with REST. It seems similar to what Alex is looking for in RESTQL . DHH's ActiveResources Presentation from RailsConf REST Microformat Discovering a world of resources Don't say CRUD say FUC'd What's new in Edge Rails, ActiveResource tags: rest , rails , webservices Read More...
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If you've done any work designing SOAP based web services you undoubtedly know that that The S stands for Simple , right? As someone who has been working extensively with SOAP based web services (developed using Indigo) over the last year+, I have a lot of interest in the REST approach. I've found the following "REST Dialogue" posts useful, and I'm definitely looking forward to checking out Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby , " REST Web Services " book! Where do you stand on the REST vs SOAP debate? Read More...
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As an admitted LINQ addict I'm going to start posting "LINQ Links" which will contain the most recent, and most interesting articles, videos, blog posts, books, or etc that I've found about LINQ. Rough Spots in the LINQ to XML Learning Curve - Mike Champion talks about some of the rough spots that he's seen from those learning LINQ to XML. LINQ for Visual C# 2005 - It appears all the major publishers are scrambling to get LINQ material out to developers. Apress is the latest, with this 150 page eBook Read More...
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Bart has a report from Anders talk at TechEd on C# 3.0 Future Directions . I'm hoping that the various talks from TechEd will be posted somewhere for us all to enjoy. One of the new features Bart mentions... that Anders mentions...that I mention now....is Automatic Properties. Up until this morning I had not heard of it as a feature, but apparently it's coming in a future release. Like some of the other C# 3.0 features its sounds like it involves a bit of compiler magic! Typing this: public string Read More...
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For those looking to feed your Linq hunger you might want to checkout: A Chat and Demo about LINQ with Wee Hyong (Singapore MVP – SQL) LINQ: The Future of Data Access in C# 3.0 The LINQ Farm: LINQ for Beginners The LINQ Farm Part II: Query Expressions Technorati tags: linq Read More...
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Greetings! My name is Aaron Dunnington. Recently, I have joined the Data Programmability XML team as a Program Manager focused on XML readers and writers. I am so excited to work with and learn from such a tremendously talented, passionate team that is extraordinarily focused on deeply understanding your needs as well as delivering great products to make your life easier as an XML developer! Over the past year, I was a member of the Windows Live team. In specific, I worked within the Desktop Client Read More...
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