All I could figure was that he was referring to the link to his blog, but I don't think it is fair to say that a consultant giving out free information is an advertisement, even if it surely should be a part of a consultant's overall marketing strategy, I suspect. I am no longer a consultant, but I'll provide a link to my blog here too to see if it is considered advertising when not coming from a consultant.
My most recent entry is potentially relevant to this thread as it is entitled "OO for Oldsters" at http://snupnow.wordpress.com/ Advertising or not? Yes, it "advertises" my blog, but I'm OK if only 5 people read it right now. I don't want anyone to read it if it would not brighten their day by doing so. So, I would think that both Tony's and my links to our respective blogs (along with any Brian might send out -- are there others on this list with blogs?) would be just fine. If not, I will stick to the u2-community (and also keep postings of blog entries few and far between since you can subscribe to it, after all), which is where I originally posted the above link. cheers! --dawn On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Symeon Breen <[email protected]> wrote: > Where ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Address > Sent: 19 February 2009 21:51 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] Leaving U2 World to the Dark Side (SQL) > > Advertisement below. > > --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Tony G <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Tony G <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [U2] Leaving U2 World to the Dark Side (SQL) > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 3:55 PM > > Don Verhagen wrote >> I have accepted an Application Development management >> position with a company here in the Philadelphia area. >> However, they are not a U2 shop. I view this >> opportunity as a chance to build my skills in and >> around the .NET platform and evaluate the use MSSQL in >> a true business application that I myself have built >> on a U2 platform in a previous time. >> >> While this doesn't exclusively rule out U2 in the >> future, for now, I'll be in SQL-land. > > Don - good luck to you. > > I expect you will find a couple clear differences and it would be > nice if you could come back and share the experience with us > after you've been at it a while: > > In the rest of the world it's much easier to simply plug a > relational database into a project and make use of it through > code. Tables as easily visible in trees in popular IDEs. > Schemas easily become classes, and stored procedures become > methods in a manner which is very elegant and compelling. I've > tried to introduce MV developers to this luxury but so far there > has been little interest: > nospamNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2008/11/mvcodegen2.html > > Yes, it's easy to get access to those relational table features > but actually defining them on the front-end and maintaining them > can be a pain. For data there is usually a need to normalize > data, which is a constant bump in the road for those of us who > enjoy multivalues and delimited fields. Of course data typing is > an ongoing concern but personally I find strong data types to be > helpful. And stored procedures can be a real pain. With SQL > Server you at least now have the option to define SProcs with > "real" code rather than as a stream of queries. A common code > language is nice but the equivalent structure for us would be to > write entire applications with code in data dictionaries or > executed as triggers. So the code itself is better to work with > but the location and flow of code is very different than our MV > experience. > > I think you'll find that working in a non-MV shop you'll find a > lot of things easier and less thinking from "inside the box" - > but you'll probably also find yourself longing for those other > things that you know are easier in MV. :) > > Best wishes, > > Tony Gravagno > Nebula Research and Development > TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
