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	LINQ At The Heartland Developers Conference 2006 If you happen to be attending the Heartland Developers Conference 2006 in Omaha, NE, be sure to stop by and see my "Intro To LINQ - Reinventing Visual Basic" talk on Thursday evening.  This is my first time out in Omaha, Kent Tegel's home base, but I think DeveloperMentor may have scheduled him to be in another city that week, so I'll have to just hang out in his town without him.  The conference is sold out (and with a list of speakers like this, I can see how), so if you really want to go, you will have to hit the waiting list.  I'll be flying out Wed. and back early Saturday, so if you are there and want to discuss LINQ, WPF, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Domain Driven Design, Web Services, and of course, XML, I'll be hanging around willing to chat.  There is a party Wed. and Thursday nights, so you can definitely find me there, or just find me during the conference. I'm busy updating my LINQ talk with the latest Sept 2006 Orcas CTP.  I got some great feedback from the other times I've given this talk, and I'm trying to out do myself with this one.  If you are a VB developer, or just someone interested in what LINQ has to offer, I think you will enjoy the talk. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:53 AM by donxml Filed under: Community Events, LINQ Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments Jim Wooley said: I'd love to hear your experience using the Sept Orcas CTP for this presentation. I'm doing a couple presentations at the Montgomery Alabama code camp (10/28/2006) but will probably do it on the May drop to be safe. October 9, 2006 8:51 PM

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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.