About the author

J Sawyer is a developer based in Houston, TX who absolutely loves to write code. After spending 9 years at Microsoft, he moved on to other things and is currently the Lead Developer for the RealTime Data Management team at Logica US. He spends his days building Really Cool Things around StreamInsight and having a blast doing it.

He has been involved with HDNUG, one of the oldest and largest .NET-focused user groups in the US, since its inception in 2001 and has watched it grow from 5-10 technologists meeting around a conference table to a thriving community of over 5000 with regular meeting attendance averaging 100 attendees. He currently serves as the Vice President. You can join him at HDNUG on the second Thursday of every month at the Houston Microsoft office.

He also loves to ride his Yamaha FZ1. And sometimes his Ninja 650. And also his Honday XR-400 dirt bike. But he doesn't code and ride at the same time. That would be bad.

Austin Code Camp ...

May 14, 2008 10:37 PM

Well, I'm heading up to the Austin Code Camp on Saturday. Looking forward to it ... I'll be giving a talk on Linq performance at 1:00 PM. I've been doing some more tests (after the previous blog entry) and I've noticed some pretty interesting things about Linq performance versus traditional ADO.NET. I won't go into detail here ... that'd be spoiling the surprise ... but some of the results were certainly not what I was expecting. And ... since it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day, I'll be riding my lovely Ninja up there! :-)

I won't go into the details of what I found just yet ... I'm going to leave that for the code camp ... but I will post the results here over the next week or two. There will be separate articles about each of the different tests and some of the interesting things that I found as I dug around with Sql Profiler to see exactly Linq for Sql was doing in the background.

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