Thoughts on Connected Intelligence and Sustainability
Move your older, distributed broker technologies like CORBA, RMI, DCOM & RPC to REST APIs that communicate with any #mobile device, app, browser or endpoint.
The #mobile Internet communicates with HTTP(S), follows an architectural style called REST, serializes data as JSON & compresses with GZip and Deflate.
Looking back over the last 6 months of this series of articles, you’ve created wireless-efficient WCF REST + JSON Web Services in Azure to download data from SQL Azure tables to Windows Phone. You’ve maintained in-memory collections of objects in your own local NoSQL object cache. You’ve used LINQ to query those collections and bind … Read more Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure
About a month ago, I wrote an article intended to help you fill some of the gaps left by the missing SQL Server Compact database. Since your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app is consuming an ObservableCollection of objects streaming down from Windows Azure and SQL Azure, it makes sense to organize those objects in a … Read more Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Improving the In-Memory Database
Let’s start at the server and work our way to the phone. Anyone who knows me is probably aware that I come from a wireless background so I’m always obsessed with things like coverage, bandwidth and latency when it comes to building mobile systems. The only thing I assume in mobile development is frequent network … Read more Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Building a WCF REST + JSON Service