Neo4j .NET Client over HTTP using REST and json

Magnus Mårtensson

Here it is; a Proof of Concept of the world’s first Neo4j .NET Client. In other words: Here follows a discussion on how to create a client library for communicating with a graph database over REST. UPDATE: There is now a live CodePlex project for the realization of this concept; A .NET Client Library for [...]

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Would you like a Byte Order Mark to go with that?

Magnus Mårtensson

It is possible to encode a little bit of metadata at the beginning of your byte streams to let the stream itself carry information on how it has been encoded. This is known as a Byte Order Mark (BOM) and it is as far as we know completely optional. Some .NET Framework implementations add this [...]

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Social Computing or Let the bots talk!

Peter Neubauer

This is a long article to follow up my talk at SSWC, so I will start with a summary for the lazy reader Summary With connected devices, JavaScript enabled web sites and the extensibility of the XMPP protocol, we are at the beginning of a new kind of applications that are operating in the social [...]

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Spring and load-time weaving of Neo4j-based domain objects

Mattias Ask

What do you do when your Spring configuration isn’t in charge of creating your objects that needs to be injected with stuff? This became a real problem for me when I tried doing some non-anemic domain object implementations persisted as Neo4j Nodes. I was playing around with creating a Twitter clone, in my opinion the [...]

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Neo4j matches my mental model of information

Mattias Ask

I’m a visual person which means that I see pictures in my head when I think about abstract things like structure, code and information. My guess is that most people do, but anyway… When I first started looking at Neo4j I was blown away by how precise the graph database structure matched my mental model [...]

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