I often speak very highly of LINQ and also LINQPad. This morning, I was struggling with some sql that would let me do a count by DateTime while stripping out the time portion. That is, I just want to know how many entries are in the table for each Date (regardless of what time). I tried lots of solutions I got from search, and they all gave not correct results, usually involving Casting and other non fun sql programming constructs.
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I have not blogged a lot about Silicon Valley Code Camp this year, not because a lot has not been going on, but actually, because a lot has been going on and I have not had much free time to blog. Tonight, we have reached one of our critical milestones which is we are publishing the schedule! 6 Tracks, 148 Sessions, and so far, 1265 attendees registered. Last year we got about 400 more registered in the last week, so I’m expecting a busy week when people start seeing the schedule on line.
I thought in this post, I’d talk a little about how we actually do the scheduling. Many people have asked over the past 4 years if we have some automated neuron network doing heuristic processing of all the constraints kind of like an airline reservation and scheduling system. Well, the answer is I wish we did. What we do have is a large room at our house with a wood floor, plenty of light, a nice paper cutter and a small group of us to fight over where everything should go.
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