Friday, September 28, 2007
Sam recently clued me in to a series of posts by his co-worker David Pallmann's that include a ton of great tips for using WCF.  I went through all David's tips on my train ride home a few days ago and was inspired to go through our code to confirm and/or change our services to use many of the recommendations that David put together.  If you're working with WCF, I definitely recommend that you check out David's tips and while your at it subscribe to his blog in case he drops any more tips the blogosphere's way.
Friday, September 28, 2007 2:20:02 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) | Comments [0] |  |  | #
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Over the last year I've spent a lot of my "free" time with LINQ.  When not writing and/or experimenting with LINQ I've been trying to learn Ruby.  Since I'm primarily a Microsoft guy, I've spent time in some Microsoft "friendly" Ruby communities such as SoftiesOnRails. As I think is typical in most passionate technology oriented communities, most Ruby peeps aren't real big fans of Microsoft.  I've heard numerous people in the Ruby community discount all things Microsoft, which led me to wonder if any Rubyists would ever give LINQ a fair look.  A couple weeks ago I came across Chris' "Full of Ambition" post on the err the blog site.  As soon as I saw ambition, I thought to myself "hey, it's LINQ for Ruby".  From reading over the initial post, it didn't sound like the guys behind ambition where inspired by LINQ at all, but instead were gunning for Rack.  A noble ambition, but surely LINQ would be a better and more ambitious goal!  Well it turns out that since their initial post the gents behind ambition have found LINQ, and set it as their new target!  In their most recent post about ambition they state:
We’ve moved our sights from Rack to LINQ. That is, we don’t want to only support other ORMs—we want Ambition to be a query language for SQL, LDAP, XPath, the works. The 1.0 release will be backend-agnostic. Maybe then we’ll change the name to Hubris? Time will tell.
As a big fan of both LINQ and Ruby I'm glad to see some LINQ'ness finding it's way into Ruby. 

Links:
Intro to Ambition
Update to Ambition, with LINQ as the new target
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:27:04 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) | Comments [2] |  | #
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Hey All,

It's that time of year again!  The 2007 Buddy Walk is on September 30th, 2007.  Christin, McKayla, Steven John, Keegan, and I will be attending the walk with our family and friends and would love to have you join us, or have you support us with a donation!  As some of you may already know, my son Steven John has Down Syndrome.   Steven John will be 4 on December 7th of this year.  He's been the most amazing blessing, and has brought so much joy and happiness to the lives of his parents, siblings, grand parents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends.  Christin and I are truely blessed to have such an amazing son!

The Buddy Walk is an event that benefits the Trisomy 21 Center (http://www.tri21center.org/) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  The Trisomy 21 Center does a lot of excellent work that helps support children with Down Syndrome as well as their families.  That's Steven John on the front page of their website, which brings me to the next topic...

This year you have a very unique opportunity.  Not only do you get to support a great cause, but you also have the opportunity to support the poster boy of this year's event....none other than Steven John himself!  Steven has been on all the marketing material for this years event, and I believe will have a small autograph session at this years event to appease his many many followers.  To support Team Eichert you can go to the following page and donate lots of money. :) 

http://www.active.com/donate/CHOPBuddyWalk2007/teameichert

Just kidding, we love any kind of donation and can guarantee you at least 2 minutes of good karma if you do indeed donate.  If on the other hand you don't donate, well....lets hope nobody has to find out what will come your way if that happens!  In all seriousness, Christin and I would be very thankful if you would consider donating. 

Much Love,
The Eichert's
- Steve, Christin, McKayla, Steven John, and Keegan

Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:54:31 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) | Comments [2] | #
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