Philip Hendry's Blog
Sporadic musings from Philip Hendry

ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview and First Look

Mar 19, 2008 • Dev Tools • 1 min read

I haven’t really taken a serious look at the Entity Framework yet so here are just a few notes I’ve jotted down to get myself started - nothing ground-breaking I’m afraid! I think my goal here will be to establish terms and a baseline view of what’s provided.  Read →

C# Operating System

Mar 14, 2008 • Dev Tools • Less than a minute read

I came across something called Cosmos and just thought it was very cool. It’s an operating system completely implemented in CIL compliant languages but especially focuses on C#. It seems like quite a cool idea to run this on especially small embedded devices but I’m left wondering what applications will be available that are compatible with the OS. I guess if they’ve implemented the .Net Base Libraries then they’ll be a fair amount already that will work but I haven’t looked at all at how this OS supports GUIs.  Read →

Water Babies

Mar 14, 2008 • Family • Less than a minute read

Today was Sam’s firs visit to Water Babies - a class for teaching babies to enjoy water and possibly even swim!! At times he even looked like he was enjoying himself!!! I’ve included a few photos of his exploits below but before that you can enjoy the video of him getting dunked!!!  Read →