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• Enterprise Mashups

  Of late one may have noticed that I have become very interested in high-brow, generally vaporous, disciplines such as RESTful data services , data interoperability and cloud computing whilst coincident with that has been the inexorable rise of the term Read More... Posted 23 June 2009 23:16 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server, SSIS, yahoo pipes, mashups, cloud computing, RESTful, data interoperability, gemini, data services, omniscope, qlikview

• Social Desktop extends REST to your desktop

  There is interesting news coming out of Microsoft’s TechFest event about a new research project called Social Desktop which is described as: The Social Desktop blends the Web and PC by embedding Web oriented sharing inside your desktop, allowing every Read More... Posted 23 February 2009 22:04 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: REST, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Social Desktop

• An audio visual tour of the Mesh developer experience : Live Framework

  Over the past few weeks there has been a concerted effort within Conchango to increase the amount of knowledge sharing that occurs within the company which was all prompted by some discussions that took place at one of our very popular community days Read More... Posted 25 November 2008 21:49 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: REST, video, Live Mesh, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment

• Introduction to Resource Scripts : Live Framework

  The Live Framework (aka LiveFX), part of the Azure Services Platform, has been available for almost two weeks now. In that time one of the least talked about features within LiveFX has been Resource Scripts however (perhaps because of my SQL Server background) Read More... Posted 10 November 2008 18:39 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: REST, video, Live Mesh, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment, Resource Scripts

• Comparing performance of local versus cloud LOE : Live Framework

  When we talk about Live Mesh as being something that be connected to programmatically we talk about the Live Operating Environment (or LOE for short). In a previous life this was actually called the MESH Operating Environment and that is why when Read More... Posted 03 November 2008 17:54 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: REST, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment

• Recursing hierarchical DataEntries : Live Framework

  When you add a folder to Live Mesh it is represented programmatically in the Live Operating Environment (LOE) as a MeshObject . When I first started prodding and poking at the Live Framework (aka LiveFX) I assumed that the Mesh was represented as a hierarchy Read More... Posted 03 November 2008 17:19 by jamie.thomson | 4 Comments Filed under: REST, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment

• Windows Live Services and Live Mesh converge : Live Framework

  Microsoft’s strategy for their Windows Live suite has drawn much criticism since its inception in November 2005 but of late the muddy waters have started to clear a little bit. Firstly we have had the latest beta releases of Windows Live Messenger , Windows Read More... Posted 03 November 2008 13:01 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: REST, cloud computing, Mesh, RESTful, Azure Services Platform, Live Framework, Live Operating Environment

• SSDS developments

  There have been some snippets of information trickling out of the Microsoft PDC this evening about SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). Namely: That’s not its name anymore. Its now called SQL Data Services (SDS) SDS is the data layer in Windows Azure You Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 20:50 by jamie.thomson | 5 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, REST, cloud computing, RESTful, SDS, SQL Data Services, Azure Services Platform, azure, SQL Azure

• ADO.Net Data Services (aka Astoria) book available soon

  Congratulations are in order for my Conchango EMC Consulting Services colleagues Simon Evans and John Shaw who are soon to be first-time published authors when their book “Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working with RESTful data” hits the virtual bookshelves Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 12:11 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Astoria, REST, ADO.Net Data Services, RESTful

• SSDS: Getting a list of authorities in C#

  I mentioned yesterday in my blog entry Are database pros relevant on the RESTful web? that I’d be doing more blogging related to cloud computing and here is the first one. it regards SQL Server Data Services (SSDS). I’ve been using SSDS for a few months Read More... Posted 17 October 2008 17:23 by jamie.thomson | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL Data Services, SQL Server, REST, SSDS, SQL Server Data Services, cloud computing, RESTful, SDS