Just some thoughts

Developers have been a major audience for Microsoft’s SharePoint team. Developing for SharePoint 2010 got a lot easier. An incomplete list of features added to aid developers: Read more

LINQ is probably one of the most compelling features of .NET3.5. I love the way you can query your data models and how that is automatically converted to queries to the underlying datasources. If you are not familiar with it, do have a look at MSDN…

Apparently I’m not the only one who loves LINQ. You may already know about Linq2Sql, Linq2Objects and Linq2Entities. However, did you know that there is now also …

• Linq2RiaServices, allowing simple access to data in the middle tier from SilverLight applications
• Linq2ADODataServices, providing similar functionality as the Linq2RiaService, but utilizing the ADO.NET Data Services framework.
• Linq2SharePoint, allowing you to query SharePoint lists and sites from within a SharePoint WebPart, and
• Linq2Azure, which is used to query Azure storage.

 Seems that every locally or remotely stored set of object  gets a Linq interface…

During my work I got confronted with Wordle. A colleague used Wordle to show what a specific website was about. I got interested in how these beautiful word clouds were made and if I could add them to my own website.

Regrettably, the Wordle algorithms cannot be shared by the author because of intellectual property reasons (IBM owns his work). Given the popularity of Wordle, I found it strange that no WordPress plugin existed that would generate similar word clouds. Searching the web for similar algorithms didn’t provide me with much answers either. But hey, how hard can it be? I decided to have a go at it myself.

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