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Friday’s community day was all geared towards collaboration. What I found fascinating was the ''speed dating''. Not real dating, mind. The format was the same, but the outcome was to encourage all the different disciplines that make up Conchango to get to know each other better. So I had 3 minutes apiece to talk to five or six people from the ...

WFC is well known to be brilliant at SOAP, and fans of WCF may be aware that in version 3.5 may be aware of the cool new features. But the rest of us (the REST of us, haha, I'm so funny)  may not know that it addresses in a simple and flexible way other scenarios- that is, serving XML or JSON data off simple Urls in a REST ...

What kind of thing is Language Integrated Query, exactly? You can draw the line in a number of places, but I am going to cut it down to the core, where LINQ is a Domain Specific Language.   There are LINQ-enabling language features, i.e the language extensions of type ...

Last night Conchango and Ian Cooper hosted the London .Net User Group.  It was held in our London Bridge offices and was a great success. We decided to try something new this time by hosting 2 sessions side by side as a way of giving people more choice of topics.  We held 4 sessions: Fitnesse by Gojko Adzic Functional Programming by ...

I never really got that excited about Silverlight 1.0, mainly because whilst it had a great core graphics engine and did video streaming very well, it's feature set was just not rich enough to make it really useful to applications that demanded deep functionality. One of the features that was clearly lacking was connectivity; you could not ...

There are several blog posts out there that cover the subject of how to consume JSON enabled services from Javascript using ASP.net AJAX. Having scouted around the usual suspects, I think the best article is by Fritz Onion here: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2008/01/31/50121.aspx That said, I haven't found it all plain ...

First of all I'd like to assure non-developers accidentally reading this post that it has nothing to do with lysergic acid diethylamide, an A-class substance commonly known as LSD or ''acid''. It's all about ACID properties of database transactions in general (boring stuff), and the ''I'' property and scalability in particular. Now that we ...

While catching up on long overdue flagged posts to read - I spotted a familiar meme on becoming a better developer – I wrote about Continuous Education almost 2 years and it’s nice to see that this topic keeps reappearing. I’ve updated my bubble graph of the technologies to include those that I’ve used over the last 12 months and have also added ...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Alt.Net.UK Conference this weekend and making the UK's 1st one a great success.  A special thank to the 3 Organisers: Ian Cooper, Alan Dean and Ben Hall, massive thanks guys for arranging it, and also to Sam Mullaly and Danni Taylor who work in the Conchango recruitment team with me for making ...

Tonight sees the start of Alt.Net.UK Conference as hosted by Conchango.  People are expected from 6pm tonight for an agenda planning session follow by a visit to our local watering hole, Bankside. The conference starts at 9:30am tomorrow, with doors opening at 9am, and will continue through to 5:30pm. To those who are coming ...