I have come across a wonderful excuse to dig deeply into ADO.NET2.0 and, having been a data kind of girl for nearly 20 years, am feeling drunk on all of the amazing things the ADO.NET team has done to make my life easier with this update.
Daily Archives: July 12, 2004
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Marcie
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCIE!
Using me for examples of why Smalltalk is better than .NET
James Robertson is a Smalltalk developer and prolific blogger. And he reads my blog. Often, when I write about a problem I have with .NET, he uses it as proof of why .NET is a terrible development platform. Here’s an example. I don’t mind, really. It’s kind of funny. And we have a little bit of a virtual relationship because of it, which I enjoy. (Especially if I post some bubbly anti-Bush comments.) My usual mantra with programming is “heck, if *I* can do it, so can you!“. So when I can’t do something, James says “if *Julie* can’t do it, then that proves that .NET sucks!“ He’s surely reading this even and hopefully smiling (or even grinning like the Cheshire Cat!) I just wanted to make note of it.