Here’s the scenario: you need to make a series of AJAX calls to process a list of objects and each call is dependent on the results from the previous call. How can we structure this elegantly in jQuery without having...
I was working with some SharePoint REST queries and couldn’t find a good list of the operations supported by the REST API. Namely, I was trying to figure out if it supported a “contains” operation (it does using indexof). I...
MongoDB is sexy. Sexy as hell. This isn’t the first or the best intro to Mongo+.NET, but I hope this one can show you how it finally solves the object-relational disconnect with an easy to follow example. Let’s start with...
Since I’ve started working with SharePoint back in beta 2 of 2007, I’ve wondered what the infatuation with InfoPath is. Everyone from enterprise architects and business users seems to be very intrigued by it. As a more technical guy who’s...
An excellent interview from NPR with Fareed Zakaria. Straight talk about the problems that the US is facing and the straightforward solutions that are being defeated by politics and ideology instead of pragmatism. No better way to spend 45 minutes...
I just recently posted a short write up on Fluent NHibernate vs. Code First in Enterprise Library 4.1. I’m starting up a new pet project (or rather re-starting it after a 3 year hiatus) so I’ve been trying to figure...
Quite possibly one of the funniest slides I’ve ever seen: It’s from a slidedeck on real-time analytics and MongoDB. I guess one cannot simply Hadoop their way out of that type of mess.
Yeah…I hope they didn’t pay these guys too much. Via: Cynical-C.
First, having been in the SharePoint space exclusively for so long now, I have to admit: it’s been a while since I’ve had to deal with non-SharePoint data access. I don’t know if I miss it or not 😀 I’ve...
Lev Grossman has an article in Time this week (not available on Time.com) that pretty much hits it on the mark — at least in my book — with regards to The Cloud. I look kind of befuddled when people...