One of the most exciting things for me about taking a position at Syndicated Methods is that I get to play!  Over the past 5 years or so I took a slight detour from building web applications.  During that period I was building SOA applications for financial services   Needless to say, I have been brushing up on a lot of the cool things that have been going on in the world of web since I was on hiatus.  One of the coolest things that I think have happened to the web is with the advancements of libraries on the client.  

Not so long ago if anyone said "That part was coded in JavaScript", you would literally see developers run.  Not that JavaScript is a bad technology to use, but primarily because of cross browser complexity.  Thanks to JQuery this phenomena has been corrected.  

Going back to SOA for a minute.  Something that I have come to realize about software is that no good code lives in a vacuum.  Code needs to be distributed ... enter services.  Traditionally, JavaScript prevented you from making calls cross domain.  If your application needed to call out to a web service in a different domain, it just was not possible without creating kludges (yes, iframes and proxies are kludges).  

When I saw that jQuery created the  jQuery .getJSON method I was ecstatic.  I will let their documentation give the official description at http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getJSON/, but , in general this method allows you to perform a GET request to a target web resource in another domain.  This allows for complete support of consuming SOA services using the jQuery library.

Happy Coding!

Microsoft has made the life of a .net developer trying to stay current extremely arduous!  Don't get me wrong, I am extremely happy that Microsoft has succeeded in expanding and adding great features to the .NET framework.  This is where short and concise literature on the vast subjects of .net become so important.  

I completed the "Essential Windows Presentation Foundation" by Chris Anderson, and I thank Chris for writing a book that fits this profile to a T.  Essential WPF gives you more than a brief overview but not so much content that you are reading a manual.  Chris is one of the Architect's of WPF and demonstrates his knowledge of the technology, and some history of the GUI for that matter, presented in a way that developers soak in.

WPF is groundbreaking and very different.  You win forms folks that have been waiting for the overhaul that ASP.NET gave to ASP will most certainly appreciate some of the changes in WPF.  Check it out, and I definitely recommend Essential WPF.  

It is about 1:48 here in Boston, and I am writing my first post to the Syndicated Methods blog!  I recently started with Syndicated Methods to help out with a lot of the technology needs of the organization.  Adding the ability for our developers to fling our thoughts about development into cyber space is a must, hence, welcome to the SyndicatedBlogs. 

I plan on updating this with all the cool and trendy stuff that we do here at Syndicated Methods.  You will also find whatever rant, praise, or rambling thoughts I might have on a given day.  I promise to keep them related to development ... well ... yeah I promise :). 

Hope you enjoy, and stay tuned ...