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I recently recorded a .Net Rocks show on XML Literals. Yeah, yeah yeah, I just did a two part .Net Rocks TV show on VB and XML Literals (part 1 and part 2), but LINQ to XML and Visual Basic 9's XML extensions are so cool that you know you can't get enough of them. Carl just announced that the show is available now. Great take-a-ways (aka my favorite parts) from the show: - Hey, you got XML in my VB. No you got VB in my XML. My joke came from a recent Good Eats episode (which was a takeoff of the old Resse's Pieces commercial), but was (mostly) cut out of the final edit for the show.
- I confess my love for LINQ to XML and its new functional constructor style (OK, this probably isn't a big surprise to anyone).
- The beauty that is XSLT
- Carl and Richard get me to call C# a stuffy language (they danced around it, and I was the one brave enough to say it).
- Declarative programming is going to rule the world. OK, well maybe rule is a bit of a stretch. Let's just say it is going to be more common then it is right now.
- LINQ is just the start. I have a number of requests for future enhancements to the framework. My 2 big ones, language extensibility and a real transformation framework (can we say XSLTO without the angle brackets).
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About donxml
I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.