On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Cerebrus<[email protected]> wrote: > > Welcome back, Andy!! How have you been ? > > The Group's doing fine, I guess. Nothing substantial on 4.0, though. > > -- > Cerebrus.
Hey C, very long time no chit, no chat. How you been? Been mostly quite excellent here, thanks! Doing a few widely-varying projects right now, from analysis for an SaaS startup to some cool, kind of fun Twitter apps for a couple clients ... got quoted in PCWorld the other week re: the Twitter DDoS issues. Been doing the fully-independent consulting thing for about 3 months, rather than the fulltime+consulting I'd been doing for years. I love the freedom and flexibility -- especially the ability to walk my dog in the sun. I worry about generating leads :) Since last I was a member here, I've discovered that I don't dislike LINQ after all. I thought it was a muddling, middling abstraction that would degrade developer knowledge and capabilities, but I have come to fall in love with it. Well, LINQ to SQL at least -- it makes rapid, iterative development very feasible, without sacrificing, as far as I've seen, security or performance, nor developer knowledge as I'd feared. LINQ to XML on the other hand ... well, great for WRITING XML, but almost pointless, so far at least that I've seen, for READING XML -- I have to write the same XPath queries I would have written with more classic XML handling. That said, my LINQ knowledge has improved a lot since I last tried LINQ to XML, so maybe I ought to give it another look. I also need to explore the Entity stuff more. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera)
