Philly Code Camp Sample Code

I’d like to give very belated thanks to everyone who helped put together this year’s first Philadelphia Code Camp, which took place last Saturday. I also want to thank those of you who attended my LINQ presentation, Can we LINQ it? Yes, we can!

Somehow, my talk abstract was not published, so I assume you came on blind faith. I have a conspiracy theory that I got censored due to a reference to communism (just kidding). Here it is in its original wording:

“With the advent of LINQ, we have so many ways to query, filter and transform data collections. In this session we’ll go over all of the Standard Query Operators and see how they work.

Does “lambda function” represent the point of union of the lambdoid and sagittal sutures of the cranium? Does GroupJoin impart the wisdom of crowds? Does EqualAll usher in an era of communism? Come and find out!

Please note: we will not talk about Visual Studio; LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML, etc in particular, but queryable data sources in general.”

Feel free to download and poke around the sample code I demoed off of. If I were to summarize LINQ, it would be this: LINQ == anonymous methods on steroids.

As if getting from Long Island to Fort Washington, PA weren’t a long hike…

I got to meet Mark Pollack of the Spring.NET fame who reawakened my interest to Spring. If you never met Mark, he’s a great guy. We took a train from NYC and got so carried away with the conversation that missed Philly. Check this out:

In case you can’t decipher, it says: “Allow return. Missed stop.” Thank goodness the next stop wasn’t D.C. Aaaah, good times.