Book Blog Posts

Cross-posted from my Don't Be Iffy Blog from the Book category.

Writing about Entity Framework Relationships

Tuesday, July 15 2008        

I have finally finished what has been, so far, the most difficult chapter of my book. It is a chapter about Relationships and Associations in the Entity Framework. Relationships as a first class citizen in an API is a pretty novel thing for me (and many) and judging from the percentage of questions in...

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Cool! I'm on Amazon.com

Wednesday, June 18 2008        

I have no idea when this went on to Amazon, but it's there now. I STILL don't have a cover which is frustrating. And Amazon seems to have given me some extra time to finish my book! The "about the author" seems funny to me. I guess since, unlike some people , I don't have 80 books under my belt (LINQ...

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Programming Entity Framework: 300 pages and counting

Thursday, June 12 2008        

I just added my latest completed chapter ( Advanced Modelling and Stored Procedures ) into my spreadsheet where I keep track of my progress. When I added the page count (56! - Heck, stored procs deserve their own book anyway) the total added up to exactly 300 pages. I'm getting there but I still have...

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What? I'm supposed to memorize it all?

Saturday, May 24 2008        

It's always funny to google for a solution to a problem and find your own blog post pop up with the answer. I had to use an Entity SQL JOIN query today and I just went back to Chapter 5 to get a reminder of how to construct them. It's not the first time I've taken advantage of what is currently my own...

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Okay, so I'm writing a book

Thursday, February 28 2008        

I finally gave in and am writing a book about Entity Framework. The publisher is O'Reilly Press and the pub date is Oct. 2008.

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Book Blog Posts

Tuesday, January 01 2008        
Cross-posted from my Don't Be Iffy Blog from the Book category.