Bryan Sampica

I'm VERY pleased to announce that the Iowa Code Camp has become a real thing.  This is an Iowa first which is very exciting.

Recently Scott Guthrie posted a really good article on querying an RSS feed with LINQ to XML.  After an initial run through of the article, I felt like something was missing.  A good buddy of mine (Dave Yancey), were working on an RSS control and we didn't like having to query the RSS twice.  Not to mention we really wanted the Title, description and link of the parent RSS - not just each of the items.  our initial query looked something like this:

Just a quick plug to the community.  I've gotten to the Alpha release of my AuctionSite Starterkit and have published a release on Codeplex

Just a real short entry today.  I had some trouble with this one - took me a little bit to figure out so I figured I would post a quick note about it.  Mostly to remind myself how I did it next time I need to. 

A while back, Scott Guthrie posted in the comments, that LINQ didn't support, or had trouble with Many to Many relationships.  I'm not sure if the code-base has changed, or I haven't considered a full scope, but I've managed to get it to work, and it's slick!  I'll jump straight to the magic here. 

I'm a little bit off topic this evening, but after all, it's thanksgiving weekend, I think I'm still burping turkey on Sunday night, and I guarantee I'll wage a war worthy of a movie called 400 trying to put my pants on tomorrow morning for work.  Just no give in dress slacks, did polyester stretch?  I just finished watching 60 minutes, first I'd like to say:  I felt the High Tech - Heist article was grossly misrepresented.  Why is it, that you can take any highly intelligent reporter, ask them to talk about technology, and they turn into blithering idiots.  If I had to listen to her say "The WPA Code" one more time, I was going to trip my TV off it's stand and launch it. 

This subject is sure to spawn hate mail abound.  I'm sure that there's an entire camp that will tell me that I'm at a conference or convention, for the conventions subject material - and to get the most out of it, I should leave work, family, friends, interests...<put your item here> behind.  You see, I already know what you're going to say, so save it.   I'm attending DevConnections - In Las Vegas.  With the MVP Discount I believe it cost me somewhere around 1100 dollars to be here and attend sessions.  Another 500+ for my hotel room for a week, meals, plane tickets, not to mention a week of work that continues to go on back at the office.