Lance's Whiteboard

After playing with the Axim X5 for 3+ days, here are my initial thoughts:

A friend just sent a link that made me go "Wow"!

I've been meaning to post this for a while now, but if you havent seen it yet, MS has been creating workspaces for its "Patterns & Practices" group for the past 4+ months.

I'm finally getting a nice Dell PocketPC after using an old beat-up Compaq IPaq for the past year. 

My feelings towards O/R mapping currently lack substance, and I plan to try again before truly discarding the concept, but first maybe I can start by exploring my feelings about O/R and object persistance techniques;

Object Relational(OR) mapping and Object Persistance frameworks are one of those approaches to development where my intuition instantly locates the nearest septic tank as soon as I start considering it.

Saw someone post this link to MSDN's downloadable .NET posters, with updates for VS.NET 2003.

It just seems sometimes that everytime I look at someone elses' code I see one of  two things;  Over-designed object models, or under-implemented code.

David Findley and I were discussing such a situation today, where we found ourselves looking at something like this:

Strongly-typed DataSet ->  Derived Base-class -> Derived Class -> Derived-derived Class being consumed by a class that uses a custom (read proprietary) Data Provider class that fills the much-derived strongly-typed data-set.  

All of this work, was done to implement 4 simple functions: GetEmails, AddEmail, UpdateEmail, and DeleteEmail.

Sometimes I really don't understand why people make their lives so complex....*sigh*