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When SQL Data Services (SDS) was first announced it was called SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) before they later changed the name. Judging by today’s announcement in blog entry The no spin details on the new SDS features on the SSDS blog they might have been well advised to leave well alone because the service is being dramatically altered in ...

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 document to have the ability to have a backing social URL for sharing without having to ...

This is the third part in a series on Representational State Transfer (REST). The first part makes an attempt at a proper introduction to the principles of REST. The second part discusses about how these principles are applied on the Internet for human consumption (the Human Web) and how they can likewise be applied to computer systems (the ...

This is the third part in a series on Representational State Transfer (REST). The first part makes an attempt at a proper introduction to the principles of REST. The second part discusses about how these principles are applied on the Internet for human consumption (the Human Web) and how they can likewise be applied to computer systems (the ...

The Internet is quite something isn’t it?  It brings many different pieces of data together through an interface that all of us are familiar with (at least those that read my blog): a web browser.   If we need to find the nearest Tube station or but stop in London, we can go to the Transport for London web site.  If we wanted the latest news, we ...

In my evolution as an applications developer I’ve stumbled upon certain technologies that excited me.  These were the more obvious things at first, like discovering the power of design patterns or unit testing.  But the last one that has really been tickling me is Representational State Transfer, or REST for short.  And I find ...

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. Since then I’ve done two internal demos pertaining to the subject which I’m banging on about most ...

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) its one of the topics that I find the most interesting and potentially most ...

  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 you look in Task Manager, and you have the LOE developer client installed, you will see ...

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 of these MeshObjects i.e. Every subfolder was also represented as a MeshObject. Take the ...