Deep Thoughts from Deeper in .NET 2008

I had a great time at Deeper in .NET 2008 this Saturday, but was it educational? Read on!

Geo 2008

I work with some Geocoding technology on the side but I had not heard of some of the cool Geocode support built in to SQL Server 2008.  There are about 70 functions for things like radius and intersection built right in.  I’ve never wanted to be inescapably locked in to the Microsoft platform so badly before…

Get a Twitter Account

While I can claim to be an earlier than early adopter of the whole blogging thing, I just now got my twitter account.

https://twitter.com/damonpayne

Implement Unisex Compilers

This seemed incredibly funny on Saturday.  If I hear “So, we say ‘Mr. Compiler’ …“ one more time I’m going to crack.   Someone who shall remain nameless casually leaned over to me and says “Just so you know, Damon, the compiler is Male”.  I had to leave the room to avoid being disruptive…

LINQ to Link

You’ll either think this is hilarious, or not…

            var updownupdownleftrightleftrightbabaselectstart =

                from rupees in Hyrule

                      select rupees;

            foreach (var rupee in updownupdownleftrightleftrightbabaselectstart)

            {

                //...

            }

It seemed funny on Saturday.

You talking to me?

On some of the LINQ demos shown during the day, the following was present in the database code:

        /**

         * This code was generated by a tool.

         **/

Personally, I don’t like the framework mocking me.

Click Once

Late at night, as the drink-tickets flowed, I got into a discussion about ClickOnce and limited user accounts, as well as what is and is not possible to do with ClickOnce.  I can see that I’m going to have to revisit this topic.