CodeBetter without the Bellware - Good or Evil?

I thought this was quite funny. Scott Bellware managed to piss someone (Scott K)off so much with his posts, that they went ahead and created  a yahoo pipe that shows the CodeBetter.Com RSS feed with Scott Bellware's feed filtered out:

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for some reason they also didn't like Jay Kimble so he's filtered out as well. Just for laughs, if you like the CodeBetter, but want to hold the Bellwarisms, here's an RSS feed for ya  :)

 

As to my opinion - I don't like the way he puts things, he makes me angry sometimes, and riles me up, but he keeps me honest, and it's good to have an "edge" that you can look at to know when you've drawn too close to.

If the world didn't have bellwares, how would we know to appreciate the JPs in it? and who'd tell us to our face if we screwed up? (they may be wrong sometime, but it's those times they are right that are the important ones)

Published Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:12 PM by RoyOsherove
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:55 PM by foobar

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Where's the filter that removes all the drivel that comes out of that site?  Oh wait, that would mean that the whole site would be worthless.

Monday, November 19, 2007 11:20 AM by Scott

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Yup, that was me. I don't remember when I created the pipe. It was a long time ago, looks like back in May. I've tried engaging him on his site and on other sites and every time his response to any question I ask is, "I can't spoon feed you information, you have to come to one of my classes." while not providing any specifics about his "TDD lifestyle". It's just rhetoric with neither style nor substance IMO. His posts never really pissed me off, they just don't provide me with any value. The one you linked to is a great example, it's just FUD about the .NET community. So rather than leaving a big diva-like comment on his blog about how he needs to get kicked off of CodeBetter or how I'm unsubscribing from his blog and never reading him again. I just filter him out of the feed.

Kimble did piss me off. He posted a rant about how Safari sucks, when I tried to point out some reasons why his Javascript code was failing on Safari and some ways he might refactor his code. He basically pulled some kind of "don't you know who I am?" crap on me and said I didn't know anything. Why try to engage someone like that?

Not to mention that it was kind of fun to create a pipe and see how the UI worked. Pretty slick. :)

Monday, November 19, 2007 7:27 PM by Ben

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Roy, I dont think I could have said it any better.  This post is why you are the man!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:23 AM by Colin Jack

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Good post