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The State of NoSQL

By AdrienLamothe : 04 October 2011 - 12:39 PM
"NoSQL" databases have become the hot topic in the Web 2.0 and Cloud worlds. On a rainy Monday evening in San Francisco, ~150 highly experienced and talented technologists gathered to discus...
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Security Options for WCF Data Services

By chco : 26 August 2011 - 08:52 PM
In this excerpt from the recently published book Windows Azure™ Step by Step, some important concepts regarding the security mechanism exposed by WCF Data Services are discussed. An important concep...
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Three Approaches to Cloud Computing: Understanding IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS

By chco : 24 August 2011 - 09:38 AM
The idea behind any cloud computing proposal is for you to pay only for what you use, scaling up or down according to business needs. Vendors supporting cloud computing can interpret this statement di...
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Microsoft Office and SQL Azure

By kbnotes : 18 June 2011 - 03:22 AM
At the recent Microsoft Tech Days / United Kingdom 2011, Andrew Couch, MVP, and author of the forthcoming Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out, presented a session titled, "Microsoft ...
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How to parallelize a batch of HTTP requests using .NET 4.0's Parallel.ForEach

By JonUdell : 22 December 2010 - 08:13 AM
Introduction In this week's companion article on the Radar blog, I discuss some of the ways that the elmcity service can scale. One way is to parallelize the gathering of iCalendar feeds. Whe...
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How to translate an OData feed into an iCalendar feed

By JonUdell : 12 November 2010 - 09:11 AM
Introduction In this week's companion article on the Radar blog ("The iCalendar chicken-and-egg conundrum"), I bemoan the fact that content management systems typically produce events pages in HT...
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How to search Facebook using C#

By JonUdell : 04 November 2010 - 06:22 AM
Introduction In this week's companion article on the Radar blog, I discuss how principles of common-sense information architecture govern whether public events posted to Facebook will or won't be...
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How to search Google and Bing in C#

By JonUdell : 26 October 2010 - 09:02 AM
Introduction In this week's companion article on the Radar blog, I discuss a feature of the elmcity service that enables curators to find web pages that mention recurring events. The elmcity serv...
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How to parse key/value pairs in C#

By JonUdell : 07 October 2010 - 10:02 AM
Introduction Curators of elmcity calendar hubs use a Delicious tagging convention to specify the metadata that controls their hubs. Calendar entries that flow through those hubs can specify event...
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How to retry generically in C#

By JonUdell : 30 September 2010 - 06:01 AM
Introduction The elmcity service makes API calls to many other services, including the Azure table service, Delicious, Eventful, Upcoming, Eventbrite, Facebook, and a wide variety of iCalendar so...
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