Joe Healy and I have been coordinating a Silverlight 2 Firestarter event [http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387218&culture=en-US] . I posted the details of this event yesterday on my site [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/silverlight-2-firestarter/]. the agenda is a 3 ho

I was talking to Shawn Wildermuth [http://wildermuth.com] tonight and he gave me a great tip about using Fiddler [http://wildermuth.com/2008/06/07/Debugging_ADO_NET_Data_Services_with_Fiddler2] to sniff our calls to my services running on my Cassini web server. I am testing some REST styled WCF ser

I’ll be presenting a MSDN Firestarter event on Silverlight 2 at the Microsoft Office in Tampa, FL on Friday October 24th [https://www.johnpapa.net/events]. This is a free event, you just have to register [http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387218&culture=en-US] onlin

One of the frustrations I have is the common confusion over REST services and POX services for those trying to understand it from scratch. It does not help that some popular services that claim to be REST or technically POX. Flickr is one of these IMO. REST services expose resources through a uri ma

According to FOXNews.com and the WSJ [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407702,00.html], Microsoft has hired an ad company and Jerry Seinfeld to help its image amongst the famous Mac vs PC ads. We’ve all seen them, laughed at them, and many of us see the obvious flaws in them. But the problem is t