The Great Entity Smack down
There is a wonderful debate going on right now on the entities wiki. You need only read some of the comments on the front page to see that different people are sharing their perspectives on application architecture, methodologies and patterns.
For a couple weeks now I have been stewing over a wacky idea that I think the time is right for. I would like to propose that we should create "The Great Entity Smack Down". My thought is that we could go get a bunch of folks that represent different perspectives in the community in a public forum. We put together a fictitious development project (oh let's say pet shop for grins) and we get representatives of different camps to discuss/debate how they would approach the project.
I am going to shake the trees here in Redmond to see if we can host the event. I would love to start a discussion on what people think of the idea, what groups should be represented, what the format should be and how we go about doing it. I think hosting it in front of a .NET user group and advertising it fairly broadly to different communities would be an interesting venue.
Chime in... provide some ideas... let's get it on.
Tim M
