Kent

[modified] Almost forgot. Here are the slides if you want to see them.

We're back from Victoria, where I did another version of my "A quick look at SubSonic" talk (it was a shorter version of the talk I gave in Winnipeg). What did I learn?

• People don't stay all day at a Code Camp. During the kickoff, there looked to be around 100 people in attendance. There were all of 8 or so people in my talk (and a big 'Thank you!' to all of you), and the other two speakers (I would have gladly been in either of their talks) during the last session claimed 25 each.
• I really need to force myself to get out and speak (and write) more
• While I feel generally apprehensive around the whole "LINQ thing", the syntactic sugar they added to VB to help on the XML work is excellent. You can now declare and use an XML element (or document) on the fly:

        Dim custs = <customers>
                        <customer id="ALFKI">
                            <company>Alfreds Futterkiste</company>
                            <address>
                                <street>Obere Str. 57</street>
                                <city>Berlin</city>
                                <zip>12209</zip>
                                <country>Germany</country>
                            </address>
                            <contact>
                                <name>Maria Anders</name>
                                <title>Sales Representative</title>
                                <phone>030-0074321</phone>
                                <fax>030-0076545</fax>
                            </contact>
                        </customer>
			'...more here, but removed
                    </customers>

        Dim contacts = From cust In custs...<contact> _
                       Select cust.<name>, cust.<phone>

        For Each contact In contacts
            Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}: {1}", _
                                            contact.name.Value, _
                                            contact.phone.Value))
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