I’ve been writing away about binding modes, ObservableCollections, XAML binding goodness, WCF, SOAP, Cross domain policies, converters, and third party web services … but tonight I started writing about passing entities between physical tiers in a Silverlight application. I know this material cold,

I am building a Twitter client using Silverlight and a Twitter [http://twitter.com/] API service I pulled together using REST services. Its nothing fancy by any means, but it got me thinking “hey John, this would be a great addition to your Silverlight book [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-S

Yesterday I noticed a huge drop of about 50% on of Feedburner [http://www.feedburner.com] subscriber count. I went from 611 to 311 in a day. It turns out that a lot of people were talking about this on Twitter [http://twitter.com/] and on the web so after a little bit of poking around I found that t

If you are doing any WPF development and you have not checked out the WPF Toolkit available on [http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963] CodePlex, you really should. This is a collection of WPF features that are being made available outside the normal release schedu

There is a LINQ to AD project on CodePlex [http://www.codeplex.com/LINQtoAD]. Its a project that has some good merit to it, especially since AD is so horrible to query. LINQ to AD allows you to query a AD structure for groups and users using LDAP. So you can write a query like this to get all user