2008 was a great year for the Sneed family. We successfully transitioned back to America from an 18 month sabbatical in Slovakia and settled down in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where we purchased a 5 bedroom house. Tony had a rewarding year professionally, in which he authored two courses for DevelopMentor, presented a session [...]
Archive for December, 2008
2008 Year in Review
Posted in Personal on December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bug in EF v.1 Limits N-Tier Scenarios
Posted in Technical on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About a month ago I wrote a blog post on an extension method for the Entity Framework called AttachAsModified, which was offered by Danny Simmons shortly after PDC as a way to perform disconnected updates from an n-tier service. Unfortunately, I discovered what I consider to be a bug in EF v.1 that limits your [...]
Spend Baby, Spend
Posted in Personal on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read a fascinating and illuminating article on the current financial crisis, as compared with the Great Depression: What Would Keynes Do? by Bruce Bartlett for Forbes Magazine. In the article the author asserts that the main problem with our economy is deflation, that is, falling prices. While most of us delight in lower [...]
Hot Off the Presses: SOA Data Access!
Posted in Technical on December 4, 2008 | 14 Comments »
I wrote an article for the December issue of MSDN Magazine, which has just hit the streets: The title is: Flexible Data Access With LINQ To SQL And The Entity Framework, and you can download the accompanying code here. The purpose of the article is to provide a practical approach for developing real-world data-driven applications [...]
