PLINQO

Wow. Been a while since I put anything into the old blogoshere. But what has driven me back? Why - what else but PLINQO. We have been using PLINQO on my projects at work for a while now, and I love it. What is PLINQO? Well, it's LINQ to SQL... only better. It's what Entity Framework is supposed to be, but turned out to not to be... Entity framework is missing so many pieces that make it a truly abismal product to use. Like what you say? Well, lazy loading for one. Plus it seems to be written with the Anemic Domain Model anti-pattern. The list goes on. For a more detailed list of the major issues with Entity Fraework, check this out... and in the mean time do yourself a favor and try out PLINQO.

New Blog

Well, after blogging for one month I came to the realization that I really need two blogs. So starting Monday this is what I will be doing. This blog (Darth Coder) will be a profressional log that I will use to discuss .NET and system/solution architecture issues. In general, I will blog anything that releates to development or my job here.

I started a second blog (Sith Coder) that I will be using to blog personnal, religous, anad political issues on. Why would I do this you ask. Its really quite simple. I do not want to alienate any of my fellow programmers, and there by hinder them getting any help from my blog entries that I may make. However, I still want to blog those personnal issues I feel strongly about.

Good book

I have been reading a book titled TrueFaced by Bill Thrall. The point of the book is how to learn to trust people with you really are without getting hurt...It is a great book. I highly recommend it to every man out there.

If you are a programmer, I have been reading a couple of different books. As a .NET architect these eare exremely good.

Writing Secure Code - This book highlights all the typical pitfalls software development goes through that results in unsecure applications, and how to prevent them.

Threat Modeling - How can you use countermeasures on possible threats if you do not even know what the threats are. This book will help you think of and develop for all your possible security holes.