Colin Harrington

This past weekend I spoke at the Twin Cities Code Camp.  It was a Blast.   My Presentation was Microsoft Silverlight and SOA.  Its new technology so resources at this point are few and far between.  Silverlight itself is only a a 2.0 Beta 1 stage.

During the presentation, I highlighted Silverlight’s abilities to consume and invoke web services.  I wanted to show cross-domain services calls where the server is a non-microsoft based application.

I developed a RESTful Server application in Grails on Linux. 

The demo Silverlight application is a Video Podcast Administration Application.  I specifically wanted to show several client side methods of invoking web services.  I didn’t want to focus on any fancy visual effects video transformations etc. 

Here is code for the Grails Server.

Here is the Silverlight Application code.

My Presentation is in a Google Doc.

I had a blast at Code Camp, It sounds like something I’ll probably do again.

I might also put a short video together to show its functionality for Inetium. I’ll be sure to post it here.

Cheers!

I really enjoy using Firefox.  I have recently re-imaged my laptop after a hard drive upgrade.  I use Firefox quite Heavily.  I will frequently have one hundred of tabs open especially when I go through my reading materials for a week. 

I noticed on both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) that my firefox sessions would hang after I crossed a certain threashold.  I have other browsers that I popped open to check to see if it was application or network specific.  Epiphany IE and Safari all worked flawlessly so it had to be specific to Firefox.

my first reaction was to pop open about:config (more) and start poking around the network settings, network.http.max-connections and the like seemed to have no effect.  Alas google remided me of the network.http.pipelining (more)  it basically allows for multiple requests to be executed at once.  This is especially important when using both Gmail and Google Reader and Digg which all utilize ajax calls in the background.