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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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How to visualize an Azure table in Excel, using OData

By JonUdell : 21 September 2010 - 10:57 AM
Introduction The elmcity service makes extensive use of the Azure table service. Why use this cloud-based key/value store instead of the corresponding SQL-based offering, SQL Azure? The standard ...
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How to explore and automate Twitter's OAuth implementation

By JonUdell : 10 September 2010 - 10:02 AM
Introduction When Twitter shut down HTTP basic authentication as a means of access to its API, the elmcity service -- which uses that API as described in The power of informal contracts -- had to...
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How to write an elmcity event parser plug-in

By JonUdell : 17 August 2010 - 10:43 AM
Introduction The vast majority of event information on the web is unavailable as structured data. The elmcity project tackles this problem by empowering curators to create syndicated networks of ...
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How to make Azure talk to Twitter

By JonUdell : 10 August 2010 - 10:06 AM
Note: This series of how to articles is a companion to my elmcity series on the Radar blog, which chronicles what I've been learning as I build a calendar aggregation service on Azure. Overview ...
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