Development Ideas and Ramblings
This is so hilarious. I absolutely love it.
[Remember WinFS? Remember we spent thousands of years of developer effort and billions of dollars, and delayed Vista by years... and ended up canning the whole thing. Well the only thing we salvaged from the whole sorry fiasco, was something called the ADO.Net Entity Framework. It allows you [...]
The Microsoft Codename “Astoria” Overview document shows how data is addressed and represented by Astoria data services. In order to address data with Astoria data services the following addressing scheme is used: http://host/vdir//{{<[predicate]>}. For instance the URI http://myserver/data.svc/Customers points to a resource, which contains all customer instances. A single customer might be referenced by the [...]
A place to find all sorts of recorded sessions from Microsoft MIX07.
If you have followed the posts from MIX07 you know about this already. If you haven’t…. here is the link.
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Tags: Ruby, DLR
We’ve collected great feedback from you in these early releases, the most significant being that we need better tools to aid in defining a data model and mapping that model to the database. Although we have tools for generating a direct mapping to the storage schema, the real power of the ADO.NET Entity Framework comes [...]
While I haven’t used CSLA in a few years, I have always looked to Rocky and the code in his library as great examples of how to structure frameworks and how to use certain technologies. For example for ASP.NET 2.0 Rocky went ahead and worked on a custom DataSourceControl which was (to me) very trail-blazing. [...]
Stephen has a very interesting article that describes the technology used by his company and how BizTalk Services ties in to provide some pretty amazing capabilities.
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Tags: BizTalk+Services
OK that was lame. Seems that Udi Dahan managed to send me a little traffic to two of my blogs with one of his posts. Nice. Haven’t you found that nothing raises cross blog traffic quite as much as a spirited set of well placed posts over a topic of perceived disagreement?
I am not [...]
Frans has a bang-up article on yet another problem with LINQ. Its more fuel for the flames of discontent (so to speak). I’ve already pointed out that from a very pragmatic standpoint LINQ is a PITA. Frans adds to that some detailed under the hood observations of why this thing is such a failure in [...]
SD Times reports : “…Evans Data today released statistics that showed MySQL usage growing among developers over the past two years. The results of this two-year survey showed that 40 percent of American developers are using databases in their work, and among those, 25 percent more are using MySQL than were two years ago. A [...]