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Building Real-World Data-Driven Silverlight Applications

In this post we will cover Silverlight from start to finish; including architecting, coding, testing, and deploying real-world Silverlight apps. We will also discuss security, its limitations, and what you need to know to secure your application and WCF services and deploy them to IIS.

Normalized vs. Denormalized

When most of us design our databases we tend to think of them as related (and un-related) tables that contain data. It is common to normalize our tables in order to create a cleaner, more manageable, and intuative Database design. Normalized means separate tables via foreign key relationship, there are however things that we should consider before we normalize our system...

Basics of Lazy Loading

Lazy Loading is the idea of providing an objects related information only when you actually need it, instantiating related objects and populating its properties when its first requested and not before. This reduces the amount of processing power required by giving you what you ask for in smaller bites (or should i say Bytes)...

Books You Should Read

Wise Words

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life happens while you're making other plans"

- John Lennon

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

- Alan Cohen

Michael Knopf