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I'm not sure how many people will really find this post interesting--Italian readers for sure, I suspect <g>
Starting today (later, close to end-of-business), a new blog in Italian is active. Thanks to Andrea, the new blog is hosted by UgiDotNet--the first Italian .NET Users Group. If interested, get the RSS here.
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My pal Alberto pointed me here. And what's interesting there? The chart below. Which gives new strength to that little voice buried in my mind under a pile of Whidbey slides and cool demos. (And I temporarily ceased any interest in Avalon and Indigo.) What's the voice saying? A good deal of VB6, classic ASP, and--trust me--even ASP.NET 1.x <g> applications are still out there: up, running, and requiring attention and efforts. That's the real world!
Sure, I love VS 2005 but lately I've been making myself quite comfortable with the old and clunky VS 2003. Too.
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Last fall, I was invited to speak at a workshop about "agile development". I had to decline because of my deep ignorance of XP (extreme) programming principles and techniques, applied patterns, test-driven development, and stuff like that. A couple of weeks ago, I couldn't resist to a small booklet, pocket guide, to Extreme Programming from O'Reilly. (BTW, excellent).
So I realized that I was agile and extreme already. It was to see that principles of extreme programming always inspired me to build software for years. But not just that. XP Programming principles can be abstracted to sort of XP Living Principles, and I'm probably agile and extreme in that context as well. (Uhm, think I have to cross-check this with my wife first...)
I felt even more reassured when my Wintellect pal John Robbins revealed that he has similar feelings about Test-Driven Development (TDD)--the only approach he knows and ever used to develop top-quality code.
Sexy acronyms--that's what it's all about...
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Some months ago I subscribed to a MS executive newsletter that either BillG or SteveB write from time to time. So far so good. I can remember at least one newsletter about fighting spammers. Today, with my greatest surprise, Outlook caught that newsletter message just as ... spam and put it in my Junk E-mail folder!
I feel sort of like Julius Ceasar felt when he realized his beloved son Brutus was stabbing at him: "Quoque tu, Brutus, fili me!"
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DevConnections Spring 2005 is just around the corner. March 20-23 in Orlando. The resort itself (Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress) is worth the show <g>.
Great place, Great people, Great talks. See you there.
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It seems that a good deal of public events will take place in Europe in the next few weeks. Which is always a GREAT news.
DevWeek--the European largest show for developers except TechEd--is one of these. Quite a few Wintellectual will be there this year, including Jeff Prosise, Jeff Richter, and John Robbins. Me too, but that's another story.