Category: Software
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These Are Just Tools
Early on in my career I complained to another developer about a particular tool. I don’t remember what the tool was, probably CVS. The response I received left me dumbfounded. “These are just tools.” JUST TOOLS? Doubts and questions flooded my brain. Was I needlessly obsessing over something unimportant? Licensing costs aside, the business owners…
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ASP.NET MVC
Teaching myself a little ASP.NET over the weekend. Surprisingly vanilla ASP.NET seems to lack a lot of modern features found in other web frameworks. I ended up running into the ASP.NET MVC preview and installed that. So far I’m liking it. There are a few rough edges I need to sort out. I think I’m…
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ECHO!
First post in a long time and it’s an echo. How useless! Still, I absolutely love this quote. An article posted on Reddit about how to hire managers, it’s an interesting article and definitely worth a read. Of course, the part I love is about programmer psychology. Psychologists have studied how people have a higher…
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Learning JavaScript
I spent most of Sunday picking up the basics of JavaScript. Overall it went pretty well, I even started writing a little Ajax application. Syntax is very C-like, but the overall philosophy of the language reminds me a lot of Perl (a million ways to do one thing). I found the following sites extremely helpful. Starting…
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Prediction: .NET is coming to Linux and OS X
WPF and WPF/E are the first step. I watch a lot of Channel 9 videos. In the past month or so I’ve seen not one, but two open admissions that Microsoft is looking at bringing C# and .NET to other operating systems. Doing so would, in my mind, remove THE major barrier for .NET adoption. Of course it’s possible…
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