Back in business

Wow, that took a lot longer than expected. Vodafone took every single day of their "up to three weeks for your broadband to be connected". In the last few weeks I've taken up my new job and am settling in fairly well. Part of the new job entails evaluating new technologies (more so than I usual do) for use within the company. After reading over the Entity Framework I have mixed feelings.Visual designers are always pretty much as many have people have pointed out they scale terribly, the strongly typed querying via LINQ, but hopefully that can come to libraries such as NHibernate soon. The lack of implicit lazy load is also really annoying.

In my opinion the EF designer should only map the relationship between the conceptual and the data models. Not generate the conceptual model, this tightly couples them and designer generated code is always a pain in the ass to extend (partial classes only alleviate some of this pain). The post DP Advisory Council gives me a lot of hope in this regard.

Over the week or so I'll outline the project I'd like start to build in my spare time and hopefully share some of it with you in the same vein as MVC Storefront by Rob Connery. Probably not via screencasts, but a product built from the ground up.