Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:51 AM
Wow! It's been a long time since I last posted. Time sure flies by. Funny enough, even though I haven't posted since March, not a ton of things have changed. Sure, summer came and went and football season has started and now is half over. College basketball is starting up. Me and my dogs still live in the country. I'm still single and looking. I am playing my guitar a lot more often now and still follow sports religiously. I took a trip a couple weeks ago for the second vacation I have really taken in my adult life. This one was about 9 days, so it was sure nice to get away for a while. I went on a trip to Orlando and played in the Golf Channel Amateur Tour Team and National Championships. I didn't do very well at all. In fact, I competed in the Jones flight and finished dead last. I had a blast and look forward to doing it again next year. I think now that it is not brand new to me I'll do better next year. I went down with the mindset if I shot 85 every day I could win it. I turned out shooting 104, 94, 104, 95. So, I think my nerves got to me a bit. Oh well, chalk it up to a learning experience. From a technology perspective, since this is a tech blog, I have been working a lot with .Net 3.5, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 at work lately. More with the .Net stuff then the other two. Mostly, as a DB I'm still using SQL Server 2005. And yes, I still have systems on 2000. How many of you out there use LINQ? I don't care what flavor of LINQ, but I am curious. I have started with it and I think it's awesome. However, I have noticed that there really isn't a ton of info out on the web about it and it seems like most everyone who posts out there is posting very basic concepts. Does anyone have an opinion on LINQ to SQL and it's future? I have heard rumors that it will become a dead language in .Net 4.0. I sure hope that isn't the case, because I like it and see it has a place. I hear the real push is for the ADO.Net Entity Framework. I've played with both recently and from a development standpoint, at least at the basic concept level, I don't see much of a difference. Sure, you call different methods to insert, update or delete, but that's it. You can still use the LINQ language to interact with the enumerations and objects. Tell me your thoughts! I'm off to work!
Take care!
Jake