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Updated Linq 101 samples for Orcas March CTP
Apparently there were a few glitches with the Linq samples in the Orcas March CTP. Erick has posted...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/12/2007
The Haskell Road to Enlightenment
Just finished reading Introduction to Functional Programming by Bird & Wadler: It was...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/09/2007
Life in KL
My brother who lives in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia has started a blog. Basically an Oregonian’s take on...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/29/2006
New MSFT hire - John Lam
John Lam, of RubyCLR fame, is coming on board! Read all about it here:...
Author: aconrad Date: 10/23/2006
Iron Python 1.0!
Iron Python 1.0 has been released! Congrats to the CLR team. Jim Hugunin has all the details. In my...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/06/2006
Nascar summer
Saw Cars twice (have kids), Talladega Nights – The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and even caught the last...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/06/2006
Mark Ashton in the house…
A coworker of mine now has a new blog. Just to be clear, this guy is THE SYSTEM.DATA GURU.
Author: aconrad Date: 06/01/2006
New blogs to ponder
Discovered a couple of interesting softie blogs over the weekend. First there is this one from Joel...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/20/2006
Next Linq Tech Preview Teaser
DataSet... Linq... hmmmmmmmm.
Author: aconrad Date: 03/14/2006
Sir Tom
Its about time: https://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/31/britain.honors.ap/index.html
Author: aconrad Date: 01/03/2006
The Ricky Gervais Show
Discovered this nice little podcast over the holidays. Simply superb! Downside is that I am now...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/30/2005
Dirty Sql
David Heinemeier Hansson, the man behind Ruby on Rails, has the best take yet on O/R Mapping...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/29/2005
Last minute Xmas gift idea
Looking for the right gift for the person that has everything. Try Bibicaffe - you won't be sorry....
Author: aconrad Date: 12/12/2005
Walken for President
Now that is a candidate I can get behind. Wonder if I can get the fifthbucket.com to endorse him?
Author: aconrad Date: 09/21/2005
Shareholder value
Apparently – I went public, or at least my blog did. And let me tell you, I didn’t make a cent off...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/20/2005
Projections and DataSet
While no was looking, we snuck projections into the DataSet in ADO.NET 2.0. While not the full power...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/16/2005
Cyrus on LINQ driven C# features
Cyrus has an excellent description of the new C# 3.0 features that were added to make LINQ work....
Author: aconrad Date: 09/15/2005
ADO.NET vNext PDC samples
Yesterday, during Dave Campell’s PDC talk (DAT200 - Future Directions for Data-Driven Applications:...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/15/2005
DataWorks team at PDC
Over on the DataWorks blog, Sushil has posted the PDC schedule for the team members. If anyone wants...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/12/2005
PDC teaser from Pablo
Pablo Castro gave a small preview of what he will be talking about next week at PDC. I will be...
Author: aconrad Date: 09/08/2005
ADO.NET vNext
The news is out (see paragraph four specifically) on what I have been working on for the last six...
Author: aconrad Date: 08/30/2005
PDC & Pablo
I saw an early preview of Pablo Castro’s PDC talk about ADO.NET 2.0. Despite only talking about...
Author: aconrad Date: 08/30/2005
www.fifthbucket.com
I wanted to wait for the official launch… but Brian has let the cat out of the bag. (Incidentally,...
Author: aconrad Date: 08/19/2005
ADO.NET on rocks
We have a bunch of folks coming in tomorrow for an ADO.NET SDR. Basically that is two full days of...
Author: aconrad Date: 08/08/2005
The one who keeps harrassing me about JDBC
You know who you are. We have finally publicly announced it; we will have a new JDBC driver for Sql...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/30/2005
The Ruby bandwagon
Ok... I got to come clean, after reading Programming Ruby, I have become a big fan of Ruby. Now if...
Author: aconrad Date: 06/29/2005
Audible.com & Pearson teaming up - it's about time!
This is great news. I have wanted this for quite some time. Now I just wonder what technical books...
Author: aconrad Date: 05/19/2005
Better late then never…
I’m a little late… but I still wanted to congratulate the all the new MVPs. All also – all the old...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/29/2005
Arpan's response to the XQuery petition
Arpan has posted a nice response to Stylus Studio petition defending Microsoft's current position...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/29/2005
System.Data new features/ changes in VS 2005 Beta 2
Carl Perry has done a nice job putting together a very complete list of what was added to or changed...
Author: aconrad Date: 04/19/2005
Stop, Drop, and Roll
A couple of weeks ago, I made a post that I thought some sort of client side data structure, which...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/28/2005
Dataworks now has a group blog
My current group now has a team Blog: https://blogs.msdn.com/dataaccess/ Alyssa Henry, our product...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/21/2005
Iceman lives
Via Michael Brundage (the man without a blog):...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/21/2005
Nix the DataSet??????
Some interesting comments from my entry on new DataSet features… Please nix the DataSet from the...
Author: aconrad Date: 03/16/2005
DataSet feature requests
We have begun the initial planning for the next version of the DataSet (post VS 2005). If you have a...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/28/2005
The Next Karate Kid
Maybe this movie was better then first thought? With two time oscar winner Hillary Swank + I am sure...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/28/2005
Everybody's favorite topic - NULL
In V1 of .net, value types could not be null. Since, this was contradictory to relational databases...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/28/2005
Dataset performance improvements in frameworks V2
System.Data.DataSet contains some very significant performance improvements over prior versions –...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/16/2005
The wrong Farrell to play Sonny Crockett.
When I first saw the headline, I mistakenly thought the fine actor Will Ferrell had been hired to...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/16/2005
Maverick support.
One of the (not so intentional) assumptions built into the mapping schema technologies of SqlXml is...
Author: aconrad Date: 02/15/2005
Xml team speaks on SOAP versus REST debate
Some interesting comments from my old team.
Author: aconrad Date: 02/15/2005
XSD gripe 3 - Substitution groups
I may be missing something here, but I really don't understand what problem/ scenarios the...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/31/2005
Washington Ski Season - DOA
Because of the infamous "Pineapple Express", the Washington ski season has basically ended. See for...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/31/2005
Is anyone really buying this?
A data layer is all about abstracting the explicit boundary between the application/ domain model...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/06/2005
Note enough commute time
About a 1 ½ years ago, I decided to purchase an iPod and get a membership with audible.com (which I...
Author: aconrad Date: 01/05/2005
XSD gripe 2 – DataType hell
I know I am just the latest in a long line of people to “comment” on this subject – but I just...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/30/2004
The 12 days of XSD gripes – Gripe 1
Ok… before, I get started – a little background. I am basically now on my second dance with XSD....
Author: aconrad Date: 12/29/2004
Fowler - The King
For the IoC amateurs (like myself) out there - Fowler has a very good introduction using the style...
Author: aconrad Date: 12/28/2004