Looking like I never post, I’ve actually been pretty busy in my work life. I’ve just been to Microsoft’s PDC., which I journaled extensively in my it.toolbox.com journal. Hey, they footed the bill for that, so they get my meager writing skills. As a followup to playing with some of Microsoft’s newest stuff, I’ve got a work laptop running windows 7, with Visual Studio 2008 installed. To come up with a way to give away all the vendor t-shirts and related swag, I wrote a raff;e web app using ASP.NET MVC talking to a db via ADO.NET Entity Framework. Gotta say, so far I’m not loving the EF. It is nice not having to write DAL code, but the resulting entities are tightly bound to the EF, and don’t support nHibernate staples like lazy loading, and caching. (Yes, I know there are work arounds. and EF is headed for PI Nirvahna, but till it’s ready, it’s just not gonna be my favorite.). I am really diggin MVC, once I got my head into that space, and I also found jQuery to be a joy to get. Fluent interfaces are a lot of fun.
Anyway, sorry for the short rambling post, just wanted to blog something. anything.
#1 by dbackdad at November 12th, 2008
I understood pretty much zero from your it.toolbox journal. I could swear it was written in English, but it must have been some strange dialect only spoken in Nerdonia.