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Monday, January 05, 2009 10:11 AM

MSDN Flash Poll: What has been your experience with UML?

Visual Studio 2010 will add UML 2.1.1 based modelling tools and diagrams. Many of us have dabbled with UML over the years. For my part I have been trained in it and trained people in the pragmatic application of UML – but have only used it a handful of
Posted by Eric Nelson | 12 Comments
Friday, January 02, 2009 3:29 PM

Are you an ISV in the UK who could benefit from a free design review with Microsoft?

You may recall that my previous role was working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help them explore and adopt the latest technologies from Microsoft. In that role I introduced something called a Technology Roadmap Review . Many years on and
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, November 03, 2008 4:55 PM

And the winner is… LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

In 2001 we first demonstrated Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technology for .NET – ObjectSpaces . However it has taken 6+ years to get to the point where we have released an ORM. Actually we released two. The release of Visual Studio 2008 in November
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:06 PM

MSDN Flash Poll: Will you take a dependency on 3rd party controls or libraries?

We seem to have a small hiccup with the polling software we normally use in the UK MSDN Flash . Zoho polls to the rescue… I am interested in whether you will happily take a dependency on software developed by a company other than Microsoft as part of
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
Monday, October 06, 2008 12:13 AM

Q&A: Deciding between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities

I keep getting asked this one. I have my own way of answering which ultimately ends up with “LINQ to Entities is the right choice for majority of scenarios, just expect a little pain”. In slightly more detail: If you only care about SQL Server AND you
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:35 PM

ADO.NET Entity Framework and large databases – fine with 400 tables/views?

I keep talking about Entity Framework and I keep getting asked about large databases. I have a stock answer based on work by an early adopter and some other stuff – but I kept meaning to try this out myself. I was about to give it a whirl when I decided
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, September 01, 2008 2:28 PM

10 years on – is software development getting any better?

The last 10 years have been exciting if you are a developer. Lots of new programming languages, lots of new IDEs, lots of new tools, lots of new approaches, lots of new apis but … as an industry are we developing software any better than we were 10 years
Posted by Eric Nelson | 26 Comments
Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:03 AM

Wow – a concept map of “everything”

I was just skimming in FeedDemon and spotted this post by Udi on concept maps . Nasty at first glance – but have fun following the concepts around… I particularly liked the distance between TX and OLTP :-) What is really scary – is there is so much not
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:03 PM

Software Practice Advancement Autumn Series of lectures

For the last 3 years I have been lucky enough to present/attend the SPA conference . SPA (Software Practice Advancement) is doing an Autumn series of 5 talks in London starting in September. Looks to be an interesting mix which I thought would be worth
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:53 PM

Three good reads on REST

Since 2002 (and .NET Framework 1.0) many of us have digging into Web Services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe. In 2005 I started to get concerned about the complexity that WS-* was bringing, when ultimately in many scenarios I
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 10:20 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 5:00 PM

A glimpse inside our new Data Centers

Caught my eye. An article on our new $550million Data Centers. Handy when your strategy is Software + Services (lots of them!) :-) http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=208403723
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:41 PM

Free Mini-SPA July 11th in the UK

No, not something you sit down in and be pampered. Well technically you do... SPA2008 is a great multi day conference and each year they take the best sessions and make them into a free 1 day taster. Highly recommended (if you fancy a chance to mingle
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Friday, June 20, 2008 2:31 PM

Top 5 questions in my last year working with ISV early adopters

As I get ready to transition role, I find myself increasingly thinking "what happened in the last 12 months that would be useful to take into the next 12 months". One of the great bits about my current role is I spend a lot of time 1:1 in day
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:29 PM

Software Architect 2008 - links from my session

This week I presented at Software Architect 2008 and I promised to share relevant links. Here goes. The three demos I showed were of the following technologies SQL Server Data Services ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework I also showed Silverlight
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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