Every developer has a set of bias that drives their development. A developer’s bias determines how they write code and what they consider is good vs. bad code. I believe there are few if any "well rounded" developers that provide equal weighting on all areas; that’s why having a team of developers with different bias …
Lhotka: SOA a Big Train Wreck Just Waiting to Derail
Rocky Lhotka has some sobering things to say about the hype surrounding Service Oriented Architectures, or SOA. He says SOA is about crossing trust boundaries but thinks (consultants will counsel) people to use it within apps and replace their tiers with SOA concepts. This he says will cause huge problems: SOA is going to cost …
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What Should ComponentOne Have Done?
At this point, because of my posts here, here, here, here, and here, and the fact my company is a reseller of components at VBxtras and Xtras.Net, you probably think me to be a shill for the component industry. Unfortunately, I’m far too idealistic for that to be true. :-) I think ComponentOne was …
Be Careful or you Will Become what you Most Despise
I have been reading Robert McLaws and commenting about his posts for a few days. I was generally commenting about his ComponentOne post and about how from his many posts and his company website how he appears to be a champion for lower prices components. And in many ways I am in agreement with him. …
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Different Component Vendors for Different Developers?
When I started VBxtras in 1994, it was partly because I felt component software was too expensive and I wanted to do something about it. Why? If I couldn’t afford to use it as an independent developer, it was too expensive. I sense Robert McLaws has similar views to the ones I had in 94 …
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Bug-Free Software?
I often read about buggy software and how vendors should be held accountable. Usually it is from someone writing is USA Today or the Wall Street Journal probably quoting a lawyer or policitian who has never programmed a day in their life, but I also hear it when the Linux zealots blast Windows. However what …
What Responsibility the Component Vendor?
I just read a disturbing post over at Robert McLaws‘ blog about ComponentOne. Full disclosure for those of you who are unaware, I run a component reseller that sells ComponentOne’s products as well as many vendors. Our websites are located at Xtras.Net and VBxtras. Robert was upset because he had received a free copy of …
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Why .NET needs the (option of) less strictness
First, I’m honored Paul Vick was willing to read my long-winded essay, and second I’m honored he would blog about it. In this blog post Paul wrote: …Mike also raises the question of strictness. He makes the argument (echoed by Don Box and others) that many programmers would do better with a world that’s more …
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Optimal Dressing, or A challenge to Eric Lippert
Ah the memories Eric Lippert’s blog post about partial order sorting was, as always, interesting and well written. However, this specific post brought back memories of a project I did for Gateway Foods of Lacrosse Wisconsin back in the early 90’s. (I googled them and they don’t appear to no longer exist.) Though my project …
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Cool Free Tool: WebDeploy for ASP.NET
Matt Hawley of eWorld.UI has posted what appears to be a pretty cool tool called Web Deploy for ASP.NET. Check it out.