Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Windows Live Data Sample Site

analysis
May 3, 20071 min

http://www.randomthirdparty.com/ is the sample site that Yaron Goland used in his demonstration of Windows Live Data, which I discussed Tuesday. He says that it's "public and available for anyone to play with at will. No password or anything." There will also be sample code, but it hasn't yet been posted. You can learn a lot by viewing the source for the sample site that's already up, but much of the art ha

https://www.randomthirdparty.com/ is the sample site that Yaron Goland used in his demonstration of Windows Live Data, which I discussed Tuesday. He says that it’s “public and available for anyone to play with at will. No password or anything.”

There will also be sample code, but it hasn’t yet been posted. You can learn a lot by viewing the source for the sample site that’s already up, but much of the art happens on the server, to process the responses, and you can’t see that easily. That’s what the sample code will be for.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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