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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

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