I just finished watching this short 5 minute video of future interaction of people & machine. As Amber Case would point out, a bit of Cyborg Anthropology comes to play. I?ve often fussed about the lackluster state of interfaces today. What I want is shown in this video on the main page here. Credit for... Continue reading →

Almost a year ago I had left WebTrends to kick off a start up. I had always promised I'd return to WebTrends if they'd have me back. With that context, I completed this start up kick off and then headed back to WebTrends. I did this for a couple of reasons. The main one was... Continue reading →

Another thing that comes up frequently is the need to do development internally against some REST Services that have SSL as the transport. If this is your case, in client code you’ll need to toss a delegate in to actually get past the SSL Self Signed Cert and get to the rest of your REST... Continue reading →

Just a few more examples, kind of a follow up to my Simian Satasin Asynchronous Calls Entry. Keep in mind, I’m providing these as examples, I do NOT suggest writing tests with Thread.Wait calls in them. Very very bad practice. [TestClass] public class GetRestServices { private XDocument doc; [TestMethod] public void TestSynchronousCallWithHttpWebRequest() { … Continue reading →

All I wanted was an asynchronous WebClient call. What do I get? Tons of dead links in MSDN, tons of pure crap of non working code all over the net. Then I realized I needed to search for silverlight AND asynchronous instead of just asynchronous. Anyway I finally found some legit code snippets and put... Continue reading →