In this episode Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) and Jeremy Miller discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities.

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Ward and Jeremy discuss the following:

• Why Alt.NET has picked a fight over Microsoft's Entity Framework
• "Perfect is the enemy of the good"
• Does the Entity Framework reduce productivity?
• How can Alt.NET provide resources to help .NET folks learn about alternatives?
  • altnetpedia
  • Summer of NHibernate

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  <li>Is there rot inside Microsoft's MVP program?</li>
  <li>What the important attributes of a persistence layer are </li>
  <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-oriented_programming">Language-Oriented Programming</a>
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  		<li>Domain Specific Languages</li>
  		<li>Fluent Interfaces</li>
  		<li>Hear Jeremy Miller say "poor man's C# 3.0"</li>
  		<li>Does <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_generation_(compiler)">Code Generation</a> need to include a visual editor?</li>
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