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.NET LINQ from Scratch

Arman Mirkazemi on Feb 23rd 2010 with 41 comments

As software developers, we spend a lot of time extracting and displaying data from many different data sources. Whether it’s a XML webservice of some sort, or a full featured relational database, we have been forced to learn different methods of data access. Wouldn’t it be great if the method of access was the same for all data sources? Well, we are in luck because, as of the release of C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 Framework, LINQ has come to change the game forever.

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Building a Tag-Cloud using GWT

Building a Tag-Cloud Using the Google Web Toolkit

Arman Mirkazemi on Mar 31st 2009 with 40 comments

A while back, I read a tutorial by Dan Wellman, which described the steps required to produce a neat Tag-Cloud. Dan’s example largely relied on the jQuery framework to request data and construct the user interface elements. I decided to write his tutorial all over again with the two exceptions of using GWT instead of jQuery, and a different method of choosing font size variations.

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