Steve Neiderhauser

Entity Framework

About a year ago, one of the development managers I worked with sent me an email requesting help with a stored procedure that was broken.  When I open the stored proc, I found ten pages of tangled, twisted spaghetti.

In my reply I suggested that he forget the stored spaghetti he had cooked up and start preparing dishes using Microsoft's Entity Framework.

Now it's even easier to learn Entity Framework.  At Pluralsight, Julie Lerman offers several courses on the framework.

Scrum Trainer

Last week I helped organize Scrum training for 27 people in Dallas.  I had a number of Scrum trainers to select from.  I recalled the experience I had with Jim Smith of Winnow Management when I attended my ScrumMaster training.

The stories he used during my training helped me remember the concepts years later so I asked Jim to teach Scrum to the Dallas team.  Jim used stories throughout his presentation that engaged the team and helped them absorb information like a sponge.