June 2008 - Posts

Working with Objects in SSDS Part 2 by Extemporaneous Mumblings

This is the second post in my series on working with SQL Server Data Service (SSDS) and objects. For background, you should read my post on Serializing Objects in SSDS and the first post in this series. Last time I showed how to create a general purpose...
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Working with Objects in SSDS Part 1 by Extemporaneous Mumblings

Last time we talked about SQL Server Data Services and serializing objects, we discussed how easy it was to use the XmlSerializer to deserialize objects using the REST interface. The problem was that when we serialized objects using the XmlSerializer...
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LINQPad - not just for LINQ by Extemporaneous Mumblings

I officially love LINQPad . Joe Albahari has done a great job of introducing a light weight tool that is great for learning and prototyping LINQ queries. From what I gather, Joe and Ben Albahari built this tool as part of their book offering. It was so...
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Paged Asynchronous LDAP Searches Revisited by Extemporaneous Mumblings

A member in the book's forum mentioned some code I had originally posted here in the blog for asynchronous, paged searches in System.DirectoryServices.Protocols (SDS.P). He questioned whether or not it was thread safe. I honestly don't know -...
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Continental Offers Million Miler Program by Extemporaneous Mumblings

As a frequent flier and former Continental Platinum Elite member, I was always jealous of the American Airlines program where you got lifetime status on the airline whenever you achieved a million air miles with them. However, I was browsing the FlyerTalk...
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Where has all the bandwidth gone? by Extemporaneous Mumblings

According to a report released by Akamai (of CDN fame), Washington is the slowest state in the union when it comes to broadband. More appalling however is the USA's positioning with respect to the rest of the world. For the country that invented the...
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