I just finished writing the first draft of a sample I am including in my upcoming book tentatively titled Data Access with Silverlight 2 by O'Reilly . Without giving too much away yet since the final details of the contract are not set in stone, the application example consumes a REST service, manipulates...

I'll be speaking at DevConnections in Las Vegas this Fall along with others Julie Lerman and Paul Litwin . The 3 topics I will be presenting are: Data Access with Silverlight 2 Integrating Enterprise Library's Data Access Application Block with your Project Practical Strategies with the Entity...

Here is the mock up of my upcoming Silverlight 2 book that I mentioned earlier today . The title is still up in the air, as is the cover art, and ... let's face it ...  just about everything except for the release date of Nov/Dec 2008.  I just wanted to see what it might look like so I...

It is 3 am and I am learning the subtle balance of typing with one hand while swaying and comforting  my new born child in the other. She was up late crying ... a lot. She had colic. So we took turns staying up with her to comfort her. The problem was I also had a book to finish. It has been years...

I've had some requests lately to write some articles that work with LINQ to SQL. I've ben focusing on the Entity Framework a lot due to its vast nature and that fact that its still relatively unknown to many people. So I am going to work on a LINQ to SQL project that ties into a multi tier model...