The Jacksonville Code Camp needs sponsors. The Code Camp is a free event for developers now in its forth year.

Sponsorships can be as low as $25.00. The code camp needs to raise $10,000 for the entire event.

This years camp should be very good, because there will be tracks for .NET, Java, Ruby, Flex and ColdFusion.

I will be giving my Linq presentation tomorrow at the JAXDUG meeting. This presentation covers the basics of Linq for SQL. The meetings are held at building 500 at the Bank of America campus in Jacksonville. The meeting starts at 6:00 PM.

The fine folks at SouthWest Signal will be hosting the next JaxFusion meeting. July's meeting will be covering how to integrate ColdFusion with Flex/Air applications.

We will be giving away a lot of goodies from Adobe. We hope to make this a regular occurrence again. We are also going to have a presence this year at the Jacksonville Code Camp.

My favorite three comedians are George Carlin, Dennis Miller and Stephen Wright. I was saddened to learn this morning that Comedian George Carlin passed away.

I saw Carlin the first time I was out in Vegas. At the end of his routine he did his famous bit on "the" Seven dirty words you can't say on radio or TV. He said when he originally did the bit, it was not "the" seven words, it was "here are seven words you can't say".

A radio station played the bit late at night in 1978, and they were fined by the FCC. They took their case all the the way to the Supreme Court until the court said that you cannot actually say those seven words.

Carlin said that he was proud because his name was mentioned in the annals of the Supreme Court for all eternity.

I have been using the DAAB part of the Enterprise Library at my current job. One of the advantages of using this library is that you can write ANSI standard SQL, and it should work with any Relational Database.

The problem with this is that if you want to use parametrized queries, T-SQL and PL-SQL use different prefixes in front of the parameters.

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I was saddened when I heard that the CFWeekly podcast was being retired. I thought Matt and Pete did an excellent job with that podcast. One of my favorite podcasts was when they had a round table of different CF developers. One of those developers was Brian Meloche.

Brian is now hosting a new podcast called CF Conversations. The first podcast has a round table with Rick Mason, Adam Haskell, Jeff Coughlin and Aaron West. I listened it this morning, and I really like the format. Keep up the good work Brian.

I am involved with the Jacksonville Developers User Group, and I am helping plan the upcoming jaxcodecamp. I have herd from some of the members planning the Code Camp that there is some interest in a COCOA Special Interest Group. COCOA makes up the set of APIs that are used to program the Mac OS X and the iPhone.

Let me know if you are interested in the a COCOA SIG if you live in the Jacksonville area.