My old post “Why Microsoft makes bad programmers” made waves last week on Twitter. And so, I decided to write about how I see things five years later, now that I’m not fully in the MS world. Well, basically the same. Visual Studio (and other IDEs – it’s not a Microsoft specific problem) is getting better
It might be, but there is hope yet. Over the weekend there was an uproar about Expensify’s blog, why .Net developers are the wrong stuff for startups. Personally I disagree just because I’m a .Net developer who joint a start up due to its expertise in .Net. There are few more logical bugs in David
In my last post, I warned against the dangers of the craftsmanship movement to itself. The main premise behind this warning is that business and developers don’t speak the same language. And since business has the upper hand, role power, money – business always wins. Martin Fowler’s post, Craftsmanship and the Crevasse, looks at the
I’ve gone from Michael Feathers’ post to Dan North’s post and then to Jason Gorman’s. If I need to choose a side, I’m definitely on Dan North’s side. As I was reading these posts,they seemed familiar. The holy wars and the calls to stop them, the call to better developers to separate themselves from the
Every alt.net meeting is exciting for me. This time it was the 4th one since we started doing this three years ago in Israel. The final discussion we had was how to get more people into alt.net. Here are a few points that came up during the discussion. The numbers of people coming really doesn’t
Some people think that by blaming Microsoft, I’ve removed the responsibility of self development from the developers themselves. These are two separate things.Developers who want to expand their horizon, enhance their craftsmanship, will find ways to do that. And because there are so many sources, they will probably not get it just from Microsoft.But we
After the LIDNUG presentation, we stayed online to discuss unit testing experiences. A couple of things stayed with me from that talk. One: we’re (we developers) are obsessed with tooling and technology (you didn’t expect hard news here, right?). Our main focus should be about solving the business problem first. But, us geeks, we like
The managed run time for dynamic languages looks cool. I’ve been reading on Ruby lately and the simplicity can take you a long way. However, this could be a curse too. I remember I was in TechEd Europe a few years back, and went to a talk regarding Lotus Notes and Exchange integration. Yes, it
The news from MIX keep coming, and it’s looking very interesting. Scoble says “Microsoft rebooted the Web”. On one hand, until a few weeks ago I was sure Silverlight was another attempt by Microsoft to take over another turf, with not too promising odds. Going after Adobe seems futile. But now, Silverlight starts to look