Last week at DDD5 Liam Westley said that he presumed I was busy since my blog hadn't been updated recently and he's right.
One task has been doing some reading of the "Inside SQL Server 2005" books which I'm still waiting on the "Query Tuning and Optimization" volume by Kalen Delaney which hasn't yet been published but the bits I've read so far in the companion volumes have all been good stuff.
I also have an article in the works on .Net databinding and whats wrong with some of it but I need to cleanup the code, document my findings and see if the workaround I have in mind will actually work. (Reflector was a big help here)
Other than that I've been following Ian Coopers advice to learn a new programming language a year and trying to work my way through Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong (I'm around the 50% mark currently). This means I'm having to go back to my college days and "relearn" functional programming again.
At DDD5 I also bumped into Oliver Sturm as I was leaving the building and we had a small conversation about functional programming and how it's going to be more important in the future thanks to Linq. He's threating me with doing a joint talk on functional programming at the next DDD so I'd better get on with finding a good application for Erlang that's going to be relevant to a .net crowd.
