Monthly Archives: November 2009

Entity Framework 4.0: a fresh start (with demo application) 1

Edited 2009-11-26: removed EF4 Feature CTP from demo package and added some code examples. So, Entity Framework 1.0 pretty much sucks (compared to alternatives), but I’m glad to see that things have improved a lot in version 4.0 (we’ll call that EF4 from now). To see how the improvements work out, I did a quick [...]

Random observations from Øredev 2009 Comments Off

Last week, my Taiga partner in crime Erwin and I went on a road trip to Malmö Sweden to visit the Øredev 2009 conference. All I can say is that it was the best conference I ever attended. Fantastic sessions, crowd and atmosphere! To summarize, some random observations: JAVA vs. .NET: from the .NET prespective, [...]

Are we out of touch? Comments Off

Last week at the Øredev 2009 conference in Malmö, there was a closing panel with various big names in software development. At one time during the discussion, Scott Hanselman brought up the issue that we (as in the people who attended the conference) might be out of touch with people like ‘The Chief Architect of [...]