Hey Andy, I see you've been doing quite well for yourself. Congratulations! I've been doing okay, as you can see, I'm still here and things haven't changed much here. Dabbled on StackOverflow for a while and then got kinda bored.
I am surprised to see you echo the very feelings I reserve for LiNQ to XML. My impression of it is that it seems like a blessing for n00bs who aren't familiar with the XML technologies (XPath, XSLT, XQuery, etc.) and the .NET XML API. On the other hand, I have prided myself on my proficiency in those domains and frankly did not find anything that could beat my existing coding style. On Aug 29, 7:18 pm, Andrew Badera <[email protected]> wrote: > 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)
