Daily Archives: March 26, 2008

TechEd News: Women speakers outnumber Brian’s at TechEd 2008 Developer

Tech Ed

About three years ago, I noticed when perusing the speaker list for TechEd US (which is sorted alphabetically by first name) that there were a lot of Brians. Then I started counting and realized that there were more men named Brian speaking than there were women speaking.

I couldn’t help but notice on this year’s TechEd Developer speaker slate that there were only five Brians. Heck off the top of my head I can list more than 5 women.

  1. Me
  2. Kate Gregory
  3. Amanda Silver
  4. Sara Ford
  5. Lisa Feigenbaum
  6. Mary Chipman (SQL Server team)

There are more but I don’t know them off the top of my head. 🙂

Another Entity Framework Team member has started blogging

Data Access

It’s great to see Colin Meek finally blogging. Colin has been a wealth of information on the MSDN Forums for Entity Fraemwrok related questions. It is also COlin who posted teh Entity Framework Extensions on CodeGallery a few days ago.

Colin talks about the extension in his first post and how they can be used to handle a variety of Stored Procedure scenarios in Entity Framework.

For what looks like a pretty complete list of the blogs of the Entity Framework team and others on the Data Programmability team at Microsoft, see the Resources page of the DataDeveloper.NET website.

Thanks to Alex for the heads’ up….