Will Microsoft Meet Occupational Programmer’s Needs?

Contents Defining “Occupational Programmer“ Professionals need Industrial Strength Hobbyists need to Learn Occupational Programmers need Productivity Occupational Programmers need Discovery Occupational Programmers need to Experiment Occupational Programmers need Progressive Disclosure Occupational Programmers need their Skills Grown But Don’t Sandbox Occupational Programmers Focus on Languages and Frameworks, not GUI Tools Not Hard to Serve this HUGE …

Clarifying my Microsoft Developer Division Rant

Contents I Ranted and Eric Rebutted While I Respect the People at Microsoft… …They Become Detached Eric Unconsciously Supports my Thesis! Dismissing the Proposal, Not Solving the Problem Not More Power; Transitionality! Today’s Potential Didn’t Address Yesterday’s Deficiency Nor Does an Orphan Address Yesterday’s Deficiency And a Potential isn’t a Solution Yes, there’s Powershell, but… …

Mort, the “Hobbyist”, and the “Occupational” Programmer get their due

Several months ago I blogged about the need for a much simpler way to get into .NET, and I named my proposed solution VBScript.NET (in hindsight the name was a poor choice because people assumed I was proposing porting VBScript to .NET instead of providing a simplified VB.NET, but highsight often is 20/20…) And I …