I've been working and am a huge supporter of Microsoft's Entity Framework. That doesn't mean that I haven't found issues that prevented me from tackling requirements of the day to day challenges faced when building real-world applications and services. I always thought that if only I had the chance to communicate and exchange ideas with the guys behind it, in the early stages of the Framework's development process, most of the issues would be solved and I wouldn't have to face those issues. Well I guess I wasn't the only one that had that idea...

Today, the EF group guys announced that they're starting the engineering and opening up their design process for the second version of the framework.

... we would like to enable folks that are interested in Entity Framework version 2 to follow the design topics as we discuss them, and have the opportunity to provide feedback right during the time where we are actively discussing a certain aspect and before we have made a final decision.

Great news, way to go guys, the idea only of being able to contribute in a Microsoft product is exciting. So if you're interested in helping design V2 of Entity Framework subscribe to http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign.

Yes I'm still here...

I know I haven't blogged for quite some time now but a lot have happened lately, some good some bad...

First, I had to find a new job, as my last employer stopped paying his employees since March (yes these kind of things happen in Greece). Unfortunately I was one of them and as you can imagine I had to quickly find something else. This took quite a lot of my time but not as long as trying to find a way to legally claim my payments. Best case scenario, from what I've been told, is that I might be able to get a part of my money after a period of two years.

Next I had to adopt to my new job. I've started as a Software Solutions Architect in a newly created company called www.metadata.gr (yeah I know we haven't uploaded our corporate site yet but that's how new the company is ;-). Even though I was kind of looking for something with less risk, I was excited with the opportunity presented to me, so I've decided to trust the guys at metadata and give it a shot (crossed my fingers and signed up!). Of course as in any kind of startup, there are a lot of things that need to be done and so little time.

Anyway things have now settled down and I intend not only to resume my blogging activities but increase it as much as possible. To make it up to you, I'm preparing a couple of surprises... so thanks for following and stay tuned.

P.S. Looking at the number of my posts, I've noticed that there seems to be a pattern between the number of posts written each year. Of course this is not something I do intentionally. Does this happen to you?