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Yearly Archives: 2010

Data Access and Silverlight 4

By Damien White | Published: December 20, 2010

You’ve decided to create a new business application (meaning some n-tier application) using Silverlight as the frontend.  Is Silverlight the best choice?  That’s a debate for another post…  Anyway, now it comes to deciding on a data access strategy, which one do you choose?  Well this is one of those things where there is no [...]

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Ruby OData Update v0.0.7

By Damien White | Published: July 6, 2010

I  just wanted to give an update on the ruby_odata progress.  If you don’t know about ruby_odata or want a refresher, I blogged about it a few weeks ago.  Anyway, I just released a new version of the gem, v0.0.7.  With this new version, you can now perform batch saves (multiple adds, deletes, and updates) [...]

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Introducing a Ruby OData Client Library

By Damien White | Published: June 12, 2010

Ever since the ADO.NET team started development on Astoria (pre-release), I have loved the concept.  Since its release (it was called ADO.NET Data Services and is now WCF Data Services), I’ve used it a ton (you may remember the example from this post).  Back at MIX10, Microsoft announced a commitment to the Open Data Protocol [...]

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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber and ASP.NET MVC

By Damien White | Published: June 10, 2010

So as I’m sure you have guessed by my last bunch of posts, I’ve been hooked on Ruby and Rails development.  The more I use it, the more I love it.  I felt I was loving it a bit too much, so decided to divert my attention back to ASP.NET MVC for a while.  While [...]

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Ruby Beauty – Rendering a Rails Partial for a Collection

By Damien White | Published: April 27, 2010

Continuing with my exploration of Ruby on Rails as a .NET guy, here’s an awesome example of Convention over Configuration at work.  I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails.  If you are interested in more, see my other Ruby posts. Today’s post illustrates [...]

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