The day at JAOO was better than yesterday, but still not great. Maybe my expectations are too high?
Today’s JAOO conference of the honorable mentionable:
- “Painless Persistence with Castle ActiveRecord” by Oren Eini and Hamilton Verissimo – which was a tutorial of Castle ActiveRecord. The session was fairly good – I learned some new stuff but knew most of it in advance. I like the idear of minimizing the complexity of data access logic, but I do not fancy the solution where the domain model objects are bound by attributes. I prefer the XML based solution found in for example nHibernate. It is a lot more tedious work, but the solution benefits of separation of concerns.
- “C# 3.0 under the hood” by Mads Torgersen – this session was a good recap of something I read a while ago. I can’t recall the source, sorry. The session wasn’t as much under the hood as the title states, but still Mads delivered a compelling walkthrough of the construct of LINQ (Language Integrated Queries).
- “Using LINQ to SQL to Access Relational Data” by Luca Bolognese – I was delighted to see that Microsoft has taken concepts from nHibernate and adopted them as their own. There are many similarities between nHibernate and LINQ to SQL, but I need to dig further into the subject to see if I should make the switch from nHibernate to full blown LINQ, with all it entitles. Alternatively I could just use the LINQ for nHibernate when it is released in version 1 in 3-6 months.
My last day at JAOO is tomorrow. Let us see what tomorrow brings. 
Anders Lybecker is an chief architect at Kring Development A/S, a consultancy firm in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He holds a degree in software engineering specializing in software development.
His primary expertises are the Microsoft .Net framework and SQL Server which he has been working with since the start of this century!
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