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Blogging at the PDC08 crushed my good old refactoring is not free series . In other words, thanks for reading my blog. I hope you enjoyed my somewhat limited live coverage.
Big thanks goes out to Marjan for sharing these photo's. ps: I'm the guy with his arm under his chin. While discussing the Entity Framework future with Tim Mallalieu another guru jumped on the couch. Don Box shared his definite experience...
I fully agree with Tim Mallalieu to recommend LINQ to Entities as the data access solution for your application. Sure, for an object-oriented view of the database LINQ to SQL was somewhat useful but in essence this is a scenario that the Entity Framework...
Chris Anderson, Giovanni Dell-Libera mention that Microsoft folks are working on transformation languages for at least five years now and how textual DSL space became more and more prevalent. "MGrammer" text to data "MSchema"...
On the way back to our hotel yesterday a college mentioned the PDC will be held again in 2009, also in November. Earlier on that day it confused me to hear the Olso folks mention they would show more cool stuff next year at PDC. Anyway, I think PDC should...
I've spend the large part of this morning threatening my persistently bleeding nose. Occasionally this pops up. Left over from years of cycling. I made it on time for the XAML talk. XAML lets you say what you want without saying how to do it. This is...
Core premise of Oslo is executable models. today we've been looking into the customization features of Quadrant (the graphical tool part of Oslo) Three main components Yesterday I blogged mainly about the M modeling language. Today we'll focus on Quadrant...
You're not here? No worries see what I've seen at channel9 .
Coolest from MS Research (at least from my pov) is DryadLINQ and Dryhad which harasses the power of cluster computing. A very sophisticated query could be executed over 1000s of nodes in the cloud. How cool is that! See this for more information...
Don't get the me wrong. PDC08 is hard work. I have this constant light headache which is a sign I'm consuming the exact right amount of information my brain is able to process without collapsing. Yesterday we've visited Universal Studio's which...
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