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ADO.NET Entity Framework video- 1 year later

Some old Data Programmability teammates of mine, Britt Johnston, Pablo Castro and Mike Pizzo (well, Mike's not that old), are interviewed by Charles Torre in this Channel 9 video to discuss their progress, challenges and customer feedback in the last year since announcing the first ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-30-2007
Geo-crime mashups

I think I've hit a personal first: a depressing mashup. Oakland Crimestopping is a Flash-based vizualization tool overlaying reported crime data in Oakland, CA, by type (from aggrevated assault to murder to burglary) and time on a Virtual Earth map. Fortunately, I live nowhere near Oakland, but if I...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-25-2007
Two thoughts on the Facebook Data Store API

Two thoughts on the Facebook Data Store API: 1. One 2. Two

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-17-2007
Interview with Peter Spiro - Building Great Databases

This is great video from Channel 9 - an interview with Peter Spiro , a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It's probably an understatement to describe Peter's career path as "unconventional", a path that lead to him eventually to accept a role at Microsoft in 1994 within the database...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-11-2007
Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2

Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation of Astoria here , providing some sample read-only...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-03-2007
Google Maps API support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results - jolly good!

The Google Maps API blog has announced support for the hCard microformat to Google Maps results. I won't go into why I think this is cool right now (no time!), but it is cool. If you haven't heard of microformats or understand why the standard is getting attention from a huge player like Google, then...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-31-2007
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers

Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007
RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs

Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007
Mashup design patterns

<warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of data access over the web. Dion's perspective is...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-22-2007
Interview with Pablo Castro on Astoria - Data Services for the Web

I caught up with Pablo Castro, who announced Codename Astoria - Data Services for the Web earlier today at MIX07 . Here's the video of our chat together. In the meantime, there have been a number of blog posts commenting on the Astoria announcement via TechMeme : John Musser at ProgrammableWeb.com :...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-30-2007

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