September 2005 - Posts

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MVP Summit! by FransBouma

I'll be leaving for the MVP Summit in Seattle tomorrow (tuesday) morning. I hope to see you there, if you're attending as well! .
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Google competing directly with MS? No, why should they? by FransBouma

Jason Salas wonders what will happen if Google got into the developer tool business. Interesting thought which I'm sure, among other thoughts, has bounced inside Microsoft's exec's minds a couple of times. Though, with all the hoopla about Google picking...
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Let me say it again: Linq==cool by FransBouma

For the people who misunderstood me in my last posting : I really like Linq as a general purpose system to offer a single interface for accessing enumerable data structures. My point in my previous posting wasn't to rant about Linq, as I truly like it...
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Yes, that's called O/R mapping, and it exists oh... for a decade or so. by FransBouma

I just watched this video , where Anders Hejlsberg explains to Channel 9 what Linq is. I couldn't help it but think "Why is everyone at Microsoft doing as if they've invented something new, or hearing from it for the very first time?". Also read the comments...
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Mono BoF deliberately blocked from the PDC? by FransBouma

Read more here: Miguel's blog . It's sad that INETA apparently isn't as independent as they claim to be...
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Linq==Cool. DLinq==... what!? by FransBouma

Ok, everybody and his/her brother has blogged about Linq already so why not ramble some words about linq here? . First, Linq itself. Linq is cool. It's a system to build language constructs inside C# or VB.NET. For the people who haven't waded through...
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Time management tips for developers by FransBouma

Code project is a great site. From time to time, real gems are posted and it's a shame a large part of the developers out there simply overlook these must-read articles. One of these gems was posted today: Time-managent tips for developers . In the past...
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