Object Relational Mapping (ORM), Creating a Weather Map using the Bing Silverlight Map SDK and WeatherBug, Silverlight Straight Talk: The Awesomeness, Disadvantages, and Difficulties in Silverlight, Building Real-World Data-Driven Silverlight Applications, Preparing for technical job interviews, Basics of Lazy Loading, When ORM becomes a problem

Creating a Weather Map using the Bing Silverlight Map SDK and WeatherBug

Bing has release a Maps SDK for use in your Silverlight projects. In this white paper we will cover how to use the SDK to display weather conditions for cities across the United States. The real-time weather data will be retrieved using the WeatherBug API and shown on the map. We will animate the weather conditions (a glowing sun for Sunny conditions, a raining cloud for Rain, etc...) and cover some core concepts along the way, specifically use of a Controller mechanism in your Silverlight projects, parsing XML into your own data model that can be returned from a Web Service, and of course getting up to speed with the Bing Maps SDK for Silverlight.

Silverlight Straight Talk: The Awesomeness, Disadvantages, and Difficulties in Silverlight

Building Silverlight application takes time, effort, patients, and tools (yes, you have to have some tools). In this post we will cover: where to get the necessities and some useful additional tools, as well as straight talk about the awesomeness, disadvantages, and difficulties of building Silverlight applications. We will also cover the basics of XAML, referencing and using related assemblies, and the how Expression Blend and Visual Studio make it all happen.

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.

Preparing for technical job interviews

At some time in your career you will need to interview for a job, if you own your own consulting firm then you are most likely interviewing for jobs on a weekly basis (by pitching clients to contract you for work). Preparing for technical job interviews requires a great deal of research, work, and most of all patience. This article provides a list of questions and answers that I fielded while interviewing for senior level software development positions, it is a collection of my experiences during 17 different job interviews with 10 companies including NASA (who offered me a job)...

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)...

When ORM becomes a problem

ORM (Object Relational Mapping) systems are useful in getting you started with a project. They help you to quickly create objects that model your Data Source letting you interact with the data in a simple and intuitive manner, however there are problems that you need to be aware of...

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Creating a Weather Map using the Bing Silverlight Map SDK and WeatherBug

Silverlight Straight Talk: The Awesomeness, Disadvantages, and Difficulties in Silverlight

Building Real-World Data-Driven Silverlight Applications

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Basics of Lazy Loading

When ORM becomes a problem

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