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What started off as a quick how-to example of rehydrating business objects from data access layers (in reply to this Jay Kimble post) morph’d into a whole lot more (thanks to Scott Hansleman’s DataSet post, and my thoughts on the topic).  The idea was pretty simple.  I wanted to see how long it took to rehydrate a multi-dimension object graph from data retrieved from a database using the most common methods in .Net.  Going into this project, I had some preconceived notions on what the results would be, but I was very surprised at the results.

This is via Kurt Cagle (the man needs to get a real blog, and post regularly):

Michael Gartenberg is arranging a NYC geek dinner after the Internet Planet conference on June 16th, and Scoble will be there.  Time and place still haven’t been decided, but I’m sure it will be on either Michael’s or Scoble’s blog.  If anyone has any suggestions that meets the normal requirements (afforable, open to everyone, and should be able to scale as needed), let Michael know.

Rory is coming down from Connecticut on Friday April 30 to visit NYC for the weekend, which means it is time for the first NYC Nerd Dinner.  Where and when?  Well seeing that there is a special meeting of the NYC .Net Group that night, we will probably meet there and go out afterwards.  This is Rory’s first time in the big city, and it is up to the NYC nerds to “show him a good time”.  Don’t disappoint him.  Just watching Rory on a NYC subway train should be worth the trip (Germ phobia, OCD and NYC Subway just does not mix, ah the lovely smell of urine on the 3rd rail on a hot and humid day).

Hey, I finally got my wife to start blogging about her experiences with SQL Server, OLAP and how she manages her tech career and  family.  She will be down at the SQL Server Connections in Orlando next week, and will be blogging about it. 

It seems like Stuart is having problems installing VS 2005 CTP.  I also had a bunch of problems, but I figured it was just the way I was installing it, but it seems that my problems may not have been unique.  So here is what I had to do:

I haven’t been good at letting folks know about the programming books I’m currently reading, but here’s a list of what is currently laying around my desks (or in the car, because you never Know when you will have 5 minutes of “free” time sitting in traffic or waiting for your kid to get out of some after school event):

I’ve been reading the Technical Careers @ Microsoft new blog, and specifically, their post on A good one-page resume for a technical candidate, which got me re-thinking putting my resume into XML.  I’ve always had it on my todo list, but knowing that once I get my resume into XML, there are a ton of cool ideas I have on making it easier to generate custom views of the resume, and very little time to complete those task, I never got around to it.  Plus, I wanted a user friendly application to enter the info.  I always thought I would just create a Word Macro to rip thru my resume and generate the XML of my own schema.  But in thinking about it, I figured that there must be some consortium of businesses that have already created a standard schema for resumes.  With a quick Google search, sure enough, the Hr-Xml Consortium already has a bunch of schemas for HR related info, including resumes.  The website pretty much sucks, you have to register to download the documentation (but you get no user id or password, so if you want to download stuff again, you got to re-register), including the schemas, and even then, you have to pull down the large zip files, and search to find what you are looking for.  No wonder why most folks don’t know about this good stuff, it is so hard to find.