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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 ericnel | 1 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 ericnel | 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 ericnel | 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Monday, June 02, 2008 3:52 PM

Maybe see you at Software Architect 2008?

This week I am presenting at Software Architect 2008 on the Wednesday . I really enjoyed presenting/attending this conference last year and I am looking forward to spending most of the next 3 days at the conference. If you should see me around, do say
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Friday, May 30, 2008 11:12 AM

Enterprise Library 4.0 - May release

I have mixed emotions about the Enterprise Library. When I was last doing development (a few years back) I concluded it was: Big. Which meant it took a lot of time and effort to understand and benefit from it. Inconsistent. The library was a "collection"
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:46 AM

UK ISV interested in a half day 1:1 technology review?

Something we have been looking at recently is taking an approach we use frequently with our managed ISVs and make it more broadly available - with a twist. I am speaking of technology reviews - half day 1:1 technical sessions. During a technology review
Posted by ericnel | 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:05 AM

Load Balancing WCF - summary of resources

I have gathered together some useful resources in one place to cover of the interesting topic of how to load balance requests to a service implemented using WCF - in response to a request from a UK ISV doing some interesting .NET 3.0/3.5 work. Frankly
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