LINQ & .NET 3.5

I'm the kind of guy who if he's got a hammer which is 20 yrs old but still serviceable I'll carry on using it. I know how to use it, I know it can do the job and I know how long it will take to hammer those damn nails in.

Tim, our new Technical Director is the kind of guy that reads 12 reviews of the new 'Supercore Hammer 2008 Samurai edition' before it's out, beta tests it for the manufacturers and sleeps in a tent on the street to make sure he can get one on the first day of release.

This is all a long winded way of saying it looks like with the arrival of Tim we'll be taking a massive leap forward - all the way from .NET 1.1 (released around 4/5 years ago) to .NET 3.5 - and it's not even released yet! Tim has been doing some testing of the new system (beta version) and is convinced it's a major development in the way we write code.

So look out world, Tim and LINQ (the data access part of .NET 3.5) are on their way. With the combination of that and the new application framework we have in development, our ability to turn around bespoke admin sites both quickly and precisely is going to be massively improved. Which means cheaper admin sites for all!!!

Things like this is exactly why getting Tim to be part of our company is so important. Passion breeds brilliance. And while I enjoy coding and I'm pretty good at it, Tim loves it. Moving to a new development platform as soon as it comes out is something I'd never do. I was happy with my hammer. Time to see what the Supercore Hammer 2008 Samurai Edition can do.

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