A few months ago I came across this great interview with Jimmy Nilsson where he is talking abot LINQ and Entity Framework. I love what he says about LINQ - that it's a beatiful thing and it's small & compact. And I'd been very curious to know what Jimmy thought of EF since I missed my chance to meet him and ask directly when I went to Stockholm. The most memorable thing he said is that it is "very big". Indeed it is. And of the things he didn't like about SQL, the most critical was the lack of value objects (aka, thanks to Roger, what we know as complex types in EF). With EF it was that it comes so deeply from the data world and the lack of PI. Here he calls IPOCO the "anti-PI". While I don't have time to set EF aside and sit down and really learn about Domain Driven development as  well as the slew of ORMs out there, I do try to grab what I can when I can and I this particular video, with Jimmy's soft-spoken contemplative way of addressing these topics, has definitely stuck in my mind.

In addition, Jimmy talked about Eric Evan's book "Domain Driven Design" and that it "is like poetry". I loved that and immediately went to find some text from it to understand what he meant and I totally agree. It's not like a typical technical book to begin with because it is all concept and written from the heart. It really made me look back at how I was "speaking" when writing my book which is very different than how I write, for example, here in my blog. In the book I am trying to explain technical concepts, how to, how to code, what does this mean, what does that mean, how does this thing work, etc...and it feels much more formal. As I go back and review what I've written, I hope to loosen it up a bit. And eventually, I'll get to read Eric's book for content, not just writing style, but for the time being I need to stay focused...

And in the meantime, I'm really excited that Jimmy & Eric are both part of the advisory group for v2 of Entity Framework.