What big companies use it primarily? Banks - their back-end processing is often in Java.
Laying off people who weren't and aren't contributing anything productive Saying that UK public services are inefficient is one thing, probably true. Saying that the layoffs can be confined to people who "aren't…
I totally agree with your analysis of how the UK got into the current mess. That doesn't really say anything about the best way out of it.
You'd have to know all the other frameworks in order to know that yours is simpler.
How many frameworks is the right number? One is too few. One hundred is too many, it will just fragment people's skills. Experimentation and inventing your own wheel is good for learning. But most of the time those…
One unanswered question: What specifically does this project bring that isn't present in ASP.NET MVC, OpenRasta, FubuMVC or MonoRail? Or that couldn't have been achieved by porting one of those to Mono (if they aren't…
Are you in the business of writing software that never gets used? I have, and I hated it. Quick feedback means quickly finding out if you're building the right thing.
there is a lot of anger towards the agile movement because it was sold as a tool to pointy haired bosses to impose, rather than a grassroots movement among engineers that embraced flexibility. the interesting thing is…
You can't successfully own code that you don't control. I believe that the best outcome for both of you would be 20% of time set aside for refactoring and increasing test coverage. Sure you'd want more but features have…
It takes a lot more that just http. I'd need to know the URL schema if you're restful, or the method names if you're SOAPy. Then there's the format of the data (SOAP, JSON, XML ..) and the expected data fields in the…
It looks like Appleseed has at least being doing the "Release early, release often" thing, which is very important. I really can't say that Diaspora has been doing that better. Or at all.
Then give me open protocols and endpoints so that I can write C# code to talk to it.
I think you lost the typical user at "whoever wants to download the source". Facebook users don't want to do that Typical facebook users are not early adopters. None of these projects are even close to targeting typical…
All words are cool if you don't know what they mean. If the reader knows what it means but the writer doesn't, the effects are less predictable and desirable.
He mentioned in passing that writing a typical README requires just the right amount of planning upfront "just the right amount of planning upfront" is exactly what Scrum should do. It's not full-circle at all, it's…
SCRUM ... all irrelevant unless the software we're building meets the needs of those that are using it. That statement misses the entire point of Scrum. What are those short iterations for, if not to get feedback from…
You're getting your midlife crisis in early. Damn over-achiever. http://twitter.com/#search?q=middleclassproblems
topic is a dud link - it takes me to a login page.
I'm still not seeing "10 years late".
Yep. The headline is absolutely no surprise considering how much development and promotion effort is going into Azure.
Making apps is programming - you can make it more accessible, but "programming" is still a good definition of the activity. Making programs with no programming knowledge sounds about as useful as driving forklift trucks…
How does he prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the small pools of standing water?
Do homoeopathic remedies have a "best before" date? If you wanted to given them "best before" dates, how would you measure when the non-existent potency starts to disappear? The next time anyone offers a homoeopathic…
Which law of nature is against the theoretical possibility, though? Even if water could absorb influences from the homoeopathic medicine, what about all the other things that this water has been in contact with over the…
Sandboxed Execution System ... Self Contained Applications ... Limited APIs This sounds like a good description of Silverlight out-of-browser applications. I wonder why he didn't mention them.
What big companies use it primarily? Banks - their back-end processing is often in Java.
Laying off people who weren't and aren't contributing anything productive Saying that UK public services are inefficient is one thing, probably true. Saying that the layoffs can be confined to people who "aren't…
I totally agree with your analysis of how the UK got into the current mess. That doesn't really say anything about the best way out of it.
You'd have to know all the other frameworks in order to know that yours is simpler.
How many frameworks is the right number? One is too few. One hundred is too many, it will just fragment people's skills. Experimentation and inventing your own wheel is good for learning. But most of the time those…
One unanswered question: What specifically does this project bring that isn't present in ASP.NET MVC, OpenRasta, FubuMVC or MonoRail? Or that couldn't have been achieved by porting one of those to Mono (if they aren't…
Are you in the business of writing software that never gets used? I have, and I hated it. Quick feedback means quickly finding out if you're building the right thing.
there is a lot of anger towards the agile movement because it was sold as a tool to pointy haired bosses to impose, rather than a grassroots movement among engineers that embraced flexibility. the interesting thing is…
You can't successfully own code that you don't control. I believe that the best outcome for both of you would be 20% of time set aside for refactoring and increasing test coverage. Sure you'd want more but features have…
It takes a lot more that just http. I'd need to know the URL schema if you're restful, or the method names if you're SOAPy. Then there's the format of the data (SOAP, JSON, XML ..) and the expected data fields in the…
It looks like Appleseed has at least being doing the "Release early, release often" thing, which is very important. I really can't say that Diaspora has been doing that better. Or at all.
Then give me open protocols and endpoints so that I can write C# code to talk to it.
I think you lost the typical user at "whoever wants to download the source". Facebook users don't want to do that Typical facebook users are not early adopters. None of these projects are even close to targeting typical…
All words are cool if you don't know what they mean. If the reader knows what it means but the writer doesn't, the effects are less predictable and desirable.
He mentioned in passing that writing a typical README requires just the right amount of planning upfront "just the right amount of planning upfront" is exactly what Scrum should do. It's not full-circle at all, it's…
SCRUM ... all irrelevant unless the software we're building meets the needs of those that are using it. That statement misses the entire point of Scrum. What are those short iterations for, if not to get feedback from…
You're getting your midlife crisis in early. Damn over-achiever. http://twitter.com/#search?q=middleclassproblems
topic is a dud link - it takes me to a login page.
I'm still not seeing "10 years late".
Yep. The headline is absolutely no surprise considering how much development and promotion effort is going into Azure.
Making apps is programming - you can make it more accessible, but "programming" is still a good definition of the activity. Making programs with no programming knowledge sounds about as useful as driving forklift trucks…
How does he prevent mosquitoes from breeding in the small pools of standing water?
Do homoeopathic remedies have a "best before" date? If you wanted to given them "best before" dates, how would you measure when the non-existent potency starts to disappear? The next time anyone offers a homoeopathic…
Which law of nature is against the theoretical possibility, though? Even if water could absorb influences from the homoeopathic medicine, what about all the other things that this water has been in contact with over the…
Sandboxed Execution System ... Self Contained Applications ... Limited APIs This sounds like a good description of Silverlight out-of-browser applications. I wonder why he didn't mention them.