News from Denmark (read, C# 3.0)
This week I spoke to JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark. It was nice to talk about ASP.NET to most people with a solid background in Java Server Pages. What I liked most of the conference was its cross sense of application development. Side by side, there were tracks on Java, J2EE, Java-based frameworks, and .NET best practices. Like all the world could speak a common intermediate (not that high-level) language.
Interesting conference. BTW, I also tried to figured out how to pronounce its name. Options available are:
1) yao (as I would have said myself, as an Italian)
2) ciao (as Ingo Rammer, German speaking, said--yep, like "Hi" in Italian)
3) yahoo (as most people say, mostly Danish)
Anders Hejlsberg was invited to give a keynote speech. He unveiled some of the ideas we'll hopefully find in C# 3.0. Nothing really new if you constantly monitor the universe of MSDN and related sources. At this time, C# 3.0 is expected to have a native integration with databases, specifically query and set language-level operators. Read (more exactly, hear) more here.