Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

After reading Steve Makofsky's post about his first Amazon order, I checked out my order history.  To make it interesting, here's the first three books I purchased at Amazon:

Alexey Govorin posted a comment about the shaving of Josh Holmes and Brian Prince at Codemash.  Alexey has posted a video so you can see them keep their promise of shaving their heads!  Thanks Alexey!

Although Keith Elder recommended I put my mobile blogging app up on CodePlex, I'm going to hold off on that for a while.  Here's why:

As part of getting better exposure of my blog, I'm updating it more often (January has already been better than any month in all of 2006), I'm also "claiming my blog" on Technorati.  As part of this process, I need to post a special link on my blog.

Thanks Keith Elder -- I made it on his "Who's Who at CodeMash" list.  Scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see me slouching in my chair.  I also made a brief appearance in his Zune Squirt Video with Jason Follas -- I'm the guy sitting behind Keith unpacking my lunch and getting ready to feed my face... :)

Thursday night, after the first day of Codemash sessions, I was sitting around with fellow SRT consultants Alex Gheith, John Hopkins, co-founder Bill Wagner and Microsoft DE Jennifer Marsman.  The subject of the iPhone came up.  My response -- "I don't get it".  Steve Jobs is a master at marketing and getting people "pumped up".  We all agreed that the iPhone has some interesting capabilities (like automatically switching between portrait and landscape modes when you flip the phone or turning speaker-phone on and off when it detects it's proximity to you).  But as a whole, it's not a revolutionary device.  According to Apple's website, the iPhone is a combination of three devices:

Ok -- back home and back blogging on a regular keyboard again!

Fantastic!

LINQ is really cool. I've read about it a little bit, but after today's keynote I'm going to download the CTP.

How will DBA's accept LINQ? Will they accept some "tool" generating the complex queries that can be easily built with LINQ? What about DBA's that require all DB access to go through a stored proc?

It will be interesting to see how all this plays out.