Jacob Reimers' Blog

Blogging about .NET, web technologies, Google's REST services and other UI stuff.

  • Creating DTOs at Runtime

    Tags: LINQ, Reflection, IL

    One of the first problems that came up when creating the Linq2Rest project was how to handle LINQ projections (select statements). On the client the resulting anonymous type would be generated because … more

  • Queryable Web Services - Parsing Query Strings to LINQ

    Tags: REST, LINQ, Query

    I have previously made a stab at supposedly RESTful webservices where the response type is determined by a part of the request URI and not the Accept header as it should be. This time I have been … more

  • Accept Headers for HTML Tags

    Tags: HTML, REST, Accept Header

    RESTful services are in fashion at the moment, but there is some disagreement as to what actually constitutes RESTfulness (if that is an actual word). A lot of times I hear that a service is RESTful … more

  • UI Interaction Using the Kinect and WPF

    Tags: WPF, Kinect, NUI, BitBucket

    I pushed an initial drop of code to hook up the Kinect to a WPF application using the Kinect SDK. The code is committed to BitBucket in the Kinect.WPF project. The main goal is to have a way to … more

  • Flocking and Clustering Using the K-Means Algorithm

    Tags: Clustering, K-Means

    I was looking around for an algorithm that would give me an outline of points in a dataset. Normally it would be a good idea to cluster the points and calculate the convex hull of the points in each … more

  • Starting XMPP with .NET

    Tags: XMPP, .NET, Jabber

    If you haven't heard about XMPP before then I suggest that you find out what it is. In short, it's the protocol that Google Talk uses. But XMPP is so much more, and if you want to integrate real-time … more

  • Consuming REST Services from Silverlight

    Tags: REST, Google, API, Silverlight

    Silverlight has a relatively advanced network stack which allows you to perform GET and POST requests to both the same domain or other domains, provided they expose a cross-domain policy … more

  • 4D Maps with Silverlight

    Tags: Bing, OverlayManager, Maps

    The OverlayManager for the Bing Maps Silverlight control now lets you define time to your overlays through the VisibleTimeRange property, which means that it will filter out any overlays who are … more

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