LINQ for Visual C# 2005 eBook Review
LINQ for Visual C# 2005 eBook Review
by David Hayden
LINQ for Visual C# 2005 is a great eBook to get your feet wet with not only LINQ, but the new features in C# 3.0 that make LINQ possible. Right from the beginning the eBook starts hitting you with content, wasting no time introducing those technologies in C# 3.0 that make LINQ possible
And that is only the first 12 pages :)
It then jumps into about 50 pages explaining each and every LINQ Standard Query Operator with examples and screenshots. It is a lot to digest, but certainly makes for good reference material when you start using LINQ for the first time as well as prepares you for the rest of the eBook: LINQ to SQL, LINQ to DataSets, and LINQ to XML.
Although I still wonder what is to become of LINQ to SQL ( formerly DLINQ ), there are some good examples and reference material for LINQ to SQL:
The book then discusses LINQ to DataSets and LINQ to XML, which I hadn't played with until reading the eBook and for which I am still coming up to speed. Again, plenty of sample code for one to learn from and visualize the importance and power of LINQ.
Although I am not a big fan of eBooks because I spend enough time looking at a monitor, eBooks are an inexpensive and quick way to get cutting edge information that is still a bit early for books. LINQ for Visual C# 2005 compiles, explains, and provides examples for a lot of information on C# 3.0 and LINQ that are found here and there on websites, forums, readme files, preliminary word documents, powerpoint slides, etc.
Great use of an eBook and one I enjoyed.
by David Hayden
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AT&T´s You Will ads - campaign for Internet normalcy
Cory Doctorow:
Andrew Sullivan has posted a youtube of the old AT&T "You Will" ads about all the things AT&T would make possible through the Internet. I think these are the most emblematic advertisements of the era, defining the way that big companies
totally missed the point of the Internet. They were like Thomas Edison declaring that the phone would bring opera to America´s living rooms -- AT&T posited that the Internet would just amplify our normal, everyday lives, so you could "tuck your kid in from a phonebooth."
What they missed was that for all the normalcy that the Internet could enable, it would be much, much better at enabling deviance -- all the behaviors that were suppressed by society, or impossible to engage in given social constraints. Instead of "Have you checked a book out from thousands of miles away?" they might have asked, "Have you ever ripped an 18th-century book and sent it to a Gutenberg pal in another country to be OCRed?" or "Have you ever used a global mapping service to track down mercenary armies in distant lands" or "Have you ever discovered that your secret kink has an actual name, a newsgroup, an IRC channel and a monthly convention?"
I think we´re still fighting this fight. People talk about ebooks, a phrase reminiscent of "horseless carriage," or "digital music rentals," or "Internet telephony," as though all of these things are just like their analog counterparts, but moreso. It´s true that Expedia is like an automated travel-agent, but that´s the beginning of the story, not the end. Google is like a library catalog, but it´s more. Amazon is like a bookstore, but it´s more. These things are sui generis -- they´re not mere "Internet libraries" and "Internet bookstores" and "Internet travel agents."
Before I dropped out of the University of Waterloo, I proposed a thesis project about these AT&T ads -- about all the nascent ways that the Internet was way better at letting us be weird than it was at helping us be normal. I dropped out instead -- and followed the weird online.
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(via Global Nerdy)
Originally posted by noemail@noemail.org (Cory Doctorow) from Boing Boing, ReBlogged by Jonah Brucker-Cohen on Dec 6, 2006 at 11:34 PM
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AT&T´s You Will ads - campaign for Internet normalcy
Cory Doctorow:
Andrew Sullivan has posted a youtube of the old AT&T "You Will" ads about all the things AT&T would make possible through the Internet. I think these are the most emblematic advertisements of the era, defining the way that big companies
totally missed the point of the Internet. They were like Thomas Edison declaring that the phone would bring opera to America´s living rooms -- AT&T posited that the Internet would just amplify our normal, everyday lives, so you could "tuck your kid in from a phonebooth."
What they missed was that for all the normalcy that the Internet could enable, it would be much, much better at enabling deviance -- all the behaviors that were suppressed by society, or impossible to engage in given social constraints. Instead of "Have you checked a book out from thousands of miles away?" they might have asked, "Have you ever ripped an 18th-century book and sent it to a Gutenberg pal in another country to be OCRed?" or "Have you ever used a global mapping service to track down mercenary armies in distant lands" or "Have you ever discovered that your secret kink has an actual name, a newsgroup, an IRC channel and a monthly convention?"
I think we´re still fighting this fight. People talk about ebooks, a phrase reminiscent of "horseless carriage," or "digital music rentals," or "Internet telephony," as though all of these things are just like their analog counterparts, but moreso. It´s true that Expedia is like an automated travel-agent, but that´s the beginning of the story, not the end. Google is like a library catalog, but it´s more. Amazon is like a bookstore, but it´s more. These things are sui generis -- they´re not mere "Internet libraries" and "Internet bookstores" and "Internet travel agents."
Before I dropped out of the University of Waterloo, I proposed a thesis project about these AT&T ads -- about all the nascent ways that the Internet was way better at letting us be weird than it was at helping us be normal. I dropped out instead -- and followed the weird online.
Link
(via Global Nerdy)
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