Daily Archives: February 19, 2007

One more month as a homebody then it all starts again

Just Rambling

After 8 INETA trips (speaking at 15 user groups), two code camps (both overnight trips), conferences in Orlando, Milwaukee, Montreal, Bulgaria and Las Vegas and then summit at Microsoft – all of this in 2006, I promised myself that I was staying home for the winter. After the last trip (in early December) I was not going to travel again until DevConnections at the end of March this year. Though it ended up meaning that I had to pass on the MVP Summit in mid-March, I’ve stuck to my promise. (I’m sneaking past the fact that I’ll be doing a quick overnight in Albany at Tech Valley .NET (about 3 hours away) in mid-March.

But I can feel it starting again already. I have my reservations for DevConnections. The day after I return from Orlando, I have to drive to Massachussets for Code Camp for the weekend and then a few weeks after that I’ll be flying out to Seattle (see I get to go after all :-)) in April to speak at the South Sound .NET Group in Olympia. I’m skipping MIX07 but of course contemplating TechEd.

I will really relish the next month in Vermont, even if I spend most of it in front of the computer. 

Oreo’s – A great source of calcium

Purely Personal

At a recent check-up, my doctor reminded me that now that I’m getting to be such an old lady (okay, she didn’t quite put it that way) I need to be more conscientious about my calcium intake. I asked her if the half & half in my coffee counted. No. How about the small bowl of ice cream once in a while in the evening? No.

I remember my mother telling me about a doctor appt she had in her late 60’s (not so long ago) when the doctor complemented her on how strong and healthy her bones were. Her reply to the doctor was that it was thanks to all those cookies she eats, because when she eats cookies, she pours a glass of milk to go with them.

So after lunch that day, (thanks to my husband’s habit of stockpiling cookies in the house (which is normally a really big problem for me)), I happily placed 2 Oreo cookies on my plate, poured myself a glass of milk, and fed my bones.

Feb CTP of Orcas with LINQ and more coming soon

Data Access

Since a few people have asked me in email (which is not a problem…), I thought I’d make mention that the next CTP for Orcas is the February CTP. It is coming out either late February or early March. This version, though still a CTP, should have all of the LINQ and EF stuff updated and incorporated, including the UI stuff such as the designer and the templates that we currently have to go back to the May CTP for, as well as some major enhancements to LINQ in VB, a LinqDataSource for databinding in web apps and more.