Question

OBJECTIVE: To learn a little more about some technologies I’m familiar with but not an expert in: Postgres, Compass/Sass, Google Maps API, Twitter API, and ASP.NET MVC 1.0, Flickr API

THE SITE: Just a fun little app with CRUD for addresses of my friends, then a page that kind of has a map of where they live, their last five tweets, and some of their flickr photos.

THE QUESTIONS:

1. I love LINQ. I mean I really love it. Probably unnaturally. How can I use LINQ and Postgres together with ASP.NET? Anyone have some experience with this? How about a good example? I mean mostly I’m just doing simple inserts and queries here, so I don’t need a ton of features. I would like to make a db repository and have some IQueryables.

2. Compass docs seem woefully terse. Can someone point me to a nice set of examples…or is it really just that easy? Also, anyone have experience with it? Any snags – is it even worth it?

3. If I have, say, 50 friends and I want their last 5 tweets… Will I hit the API rate limit if I try to pull them all at once and update all of them at once, so that I don’t run into network issues? Is it even worth it to do that?

4. Google are too smart for their own good. I don’t really “get” the API docs. Can someone give me the 10 second overview? It’s not a “mapplet” right?

Thanks in advance, you guys rock!

Edit – I’m also looking for general tips using any of those technologies!

Answer 1

There are several open source LINQ projects over on CodePlex.

DBLinq: http://dblinq.codeplex.com/

LINQ to Twitter: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/
(disclaimer: I wrote LINQ to Twitter)

LINQ to Google: http://glinq.codeplex.com/

LINQ to Flickr: http://linqflickr.codeplex.com/