It is the recommended way for SharePoint 2010 CRUD according to "SharePoint 2010 Dev with VS2010" by E. Carter et al. I use it and love having some of that back end taken care of (and i've really grown to like Linq). but as someone else said i use straight up SQL when the going gets tough.

I learned about the Sieve of Eratosthenes in my naive past after i thought i had come up with a novel approach at finding primes since you could use part of this sieve approach to compute primes in parallel (don't get me started). When i found out it was just a modified version of his sieve I fell into depression and never tried to do anything novel again. J/K...but seriously.

Try the starbucks blonde coffee (i forget what it's called). Run in, order a tall blonde coffee and say it's because you like your coffee like you like your women. The barista will roll their eyes like they've heard it 1000 times before, but i assure you, they are laughing on the inside. But typically i agree that drinking the regular starbucks coffee...it taste like it was strained through an old boot and mixed with tar.

:laugh: Keep it. Sounds like you may need it for your design meetings.

If you have a big enough hammer, everything IS a nail.

"I am constantly told..." You don't happen to work at LinkedIn do you?

When i was in tech support i learned from a guy who was about to retire. I used to ask him how they did the job before google, but he'd always shut me down with an angry "Hey!" like he didn't want to talk about it.

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