Higher Efficiency, Inc.

Recent events & presentations:
Tech Valley Code Camp 2008
April 2008: Intro to WCF
June 2008: WCF II at TVUG

Upcoming events & presentations:
November 2008: Code Camp 2008.2
Planning underway to bring
Code Camp back to Albany!

With resources in Albany, NY, NYC, Stamford, CT and Chicago, IL, Higher Efficiency, Inc. is committed to helping organizations establish a comprehensive, social technology integrated, cost-effective information technology platform. With over a decade of experience introducing New York small businesses and international corporations to the value found through creative use of innovative technologies and access to a wide network of expert resources, Higher Efficiency is uniquely positioned to help you resolve business pain and grow your business.

Higher Efficiency's Take on Tech:

2008/09/29 - Getting started with SQL Server Data Services (SSDS)

I spent this weekend primarily doing two things:

1) hacking away at my new HTC Kaiser (AT&T Tilt, TyTn II), unlocking it, flashing new ROMs, installing new CABs, and
2) getting familiar with the basics of using SSDS.

The David Robinson MSDN Magazine article that helped kickstart me on this topic can be found here. Even better, it turns out there's an invaluable SDK/toolkit for getting to know SSDS -- the SQL Server Data Services SDK (beta) of course. There is also a single MSDN forum dedicated to SSDS. I haven't yet discovered an IRC channel. There are a number of MSDN team blogs, as well as a handful of non-MS blogs that I'll cover in later posts.

To up the ante a bit, I decided to write a console (command line) app for my Windows Mobile 6.1 device, the HTC Kaiser. I was halfway through implementing this app when I discovered the SDK, and the command line tool that comes with it. I'm going to reimplement this tool, ST.exe, for Windows Mobile/.NET CompactFramework 3.5. (I've tried to find source for it, so far, no go ...)

The SDK also comes with a GUI explorer that makes it simple to understand the RESTful operations supported by Authorities, Containers and/or Entities. (You can't PUT, or update, Authorities or Containers. Yet attempts to do so still seem to increment those objects' version numbers ...)

So far, I'm liking the SSDS beta experience. More to follow.