Andres Aguiar's Weblog

On May 4^th there will be a TedX Montevideo and a Montevideo CloudCamp. Guess where all the cool kids are going to be? The CloudCamp, of course!

Next Wednesday April 14th we'll be having our big annual Microsoft Professionals Conference here in Montevideo.

Next Wednesday Dec 16h at 6.30 pm we'll have the last meeting of this year.

I'll be sharing my thoughts and showing some demos of what was announced at PDC 09, and Gabriel Lopez is going to talk about Windows Workflow 4.0.

You can register here. We'll be giving away a free license of NetAdvantage 2009.2!

We'll have our monthly community meeting at Microsoft´s Uruguay office.

Unfortunately, after 2 years of presenting in the Buenos Aires CodeCamp, this time I won't be able to make it, which is bad because it's a really nice event with very good presenters and a lot of energy.

Doug Purdy announced that the Oslo and the Data Programmability team were merged.

Since I first heard of the Entity Framework, it was pretty clear to me that it was designed to be the 'Model' of the .NET Framework. Even if there were some disagreements over the EF programming model or their designers, the 'modeling' part of the story looked pretty well (even if I can still not map some fairly common scenarios (1)).

If Oslo wanted to drive ´Model-Driven Development' in the .NET platform, and if they took a very 'data-driven' approach, it made sense that they used the EF as their model.

It looks that in addition of fluent interfaces for the EF, we´ll have a way to define an EF model in M, which would be much better than the current XMLs. We´ll need to wait until PDC to find out.

As a side note, Oslo looks to be very far from it's shipping date.

I'll be presenting about UX Patterns and Quince @ CUMUY August Meeting at the Microsoft offices in Montevideo.

I'll be an MVP for Client App Development for 2009!