I've decided to go for it and do a presentation at the Seattle Code Camp (v4.0, Nov. 15/16). I can't say I've been completely bullied into it (Paul!) but I've definitely been strongly nudged. I know I want to do something on Entity Framework, but I'm certainly no expert. In fact, I'm a relative newbie. My experience comes from serving as a technical reviewer on Julie Lerman's book Programming Entity Framework (now available through O'Reilly's Safari Rough Cuts). So, what can I present on? Various titles come to mind:
Even Newbies Can Do Entity Framework
What's the big EFing Deal?
and variations on that theme. My idea is to demonstrate some basic scenarios and have interested audience members follow along on their laptops. I won't be discussing the merits of NHibernate vs. EF, that's for others with more experience and more tolerance for discord. My angle is this "You've been hearing about EF. You haven't done much or anything with it, let's check it out together."
I've only got about a month to pull it together, wish me luck.
Posted by buggy at October 8, 2008 02:26 PM"What's the big EFing Deal?" get's my vote hands-down.
Posted by: JD on October 17, 2008 01:02 PM