I guess we can’t call it ADO.NET Orcas any more…. I guess the right name will just be ADO.NET 3.5.
Daily Archives: May 14, 2007
DevTeach bound
The DevTeach pre-con workshops are today. I am heading up tonight as the main conference is Tuesday through Thursday. Montreal in the spring – aaaah!
There’s so much going on at DevTeach.
Tomorrow morning, Pablo Castro will be doing his keynote, which I’m looking forward to. He will follow up wiht a focus group on Entity Framework in the afternoon.
There is going to be a lively panel on OpenSource on Wednesday night as well as two Birds of a Feather sessions.. one on pair programming with Oksana Udovitsdka and Wendy Friedlander of Oxygen Media in NYC. I’m looking forward to meeting these two hip young women programmers even though I know I will stand next to them feeling like a frumpy old middle aged lady programmer. 🙂
I’ll be doing three talks. One is on Hacking Click Once, based on my experiences I wrote about in this CoDe Magazine article. It’s been hell getting this to gel with IIS7. I will also be doing a presentation on using the asynchronous features of ASP.NET 2.0 and then I will be talking about Entity Framework on Thursday afternoon.
I’m also looking forward to seeing Kate Gregory, who I haven’t seen in way too long. Kate and I first met at the first DevTeach. We had each been told “you should meet…” and without having seen pictures of each other, we recognized each other immediately when we passed in a hallway. In fact there are many people that I met at DevTeach who have since become friends. It is a conference I truly look forward to every year.
Staying afloat with ADO.NET futures thanks to Roger Jennings and LINQ thanks to Mike Taulty
In my short span betwee MIX and DevTeach (leaving tonight), I’ve been heads down playing with Silverlight’s Inking capabilities and preparing for my DevTeach sessions and avoiding dealing with the delay of EF.
In the meantime, Roger Jennings continues to organize all of the info about ADO.NET Entity Framework into comprehensive posts such as this one.
Mike Taulty’s library of LINQ to SQL videos has grown by orders of magnitude. Now he’s posting LINQ to XML. When I see how many 15-20 minute videos it is taking Mike to demo and explain LINQ to SQL in a way that is satisfactory, it keeps making me laugh at the absurdity of covering whatever I can manage to squeeze into conference sessions that range from 60 – 90 minutes. Mike definitely has the right way to acheive this!!
Green Computing for Software companies at VTSDA on Wednesday
An amazing panel of local experts will congregate at Wednesday’s Vermont Software Developer Alliance meeting.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
12pm – 2pm, Courtyard Marriott Williston, Vermont
A discussion on climate change and what software companies can do to help slow it
This month’s meeting brings together a panel of speakers who are experts in helping businesses to:
- Reduce energy consumption
- Recycle computers
- Properly dispose of electronic waste
- Leverage greener transportation options
- Buying greener products
- and more
More info at www.vtsda.org
Vermont.NET Double Header Tonight! May 14th.
Tonight we have two presentations at Vermont.NET.
Laura Blood from Blue Note Computing will present on Windows Services.
Mike Soulia, a guy of many hats: Vermont Tech teacher, owner of two great stores in Burlington (Apple Mountain and Kiss the Cook) and a consultant, will dig further into WPF and Expression.
Free pizza and soda sponsored by MyWebGrocer (who is actively looking for .NET developers).
It should be a fun meeting.
It will be the first meeting ever (5+ years) that I will miss since I am driving up to Montreal for DevTeach.