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re: Some New Features in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

VinceB — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:36:00 GMT

Thanks. It's a by-product from pasting a block of Microsoft Word bookmarks. The server won't let me edit for some reason so it’ll get fixed later.

re: Some New Features in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

Zk.net — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:25:00 GMT

Your 'internal' links point to the edit post page. FYI.

re: Does Anyone Listen to Peter Coffee?

VinceB — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:37:00 GMT

So I said to myself, "Maybe I was off on my comments". I picked up a few back issues of eWeek (I have plenty, thank you) and listened to Peter a little on "eWEEK's Weekly Podcast". With Peter Coffee on Podcasts, I guess people do "Listen" to him. I must say that Peter writes on a broad range of topics from SOX to hardware and some of it's very interesting. There are a lot of developers that live and breath these products and really need a better review than this. I would just ask Peter to stay off of the Microsoft bashing and avoid the word bandwagon because it's not, it's a choice.

Also, a price-feature comparison against the Java, Borland, Rational, etc. tools would be interesting but not very useful. Microsoft tools are still the easiest way to get the job done, even if we have to wait for a version 2.0 for more features. Tell me you don't get locked into the other tools with CALs and runtimes version issues. The Microsoft team is always working to make it easier for developers.

re: Does Anyone Listen to Peter Coffee?

Peter Coffee — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:09:00 GMT

Well, among the "obviously biased" things that I said was that "Microsoft offers developers a comprehensive, impressively choreographed environment for building a broad variety of applications that include both rich clients and Web services." You disagree?

You ask, "How about he throw in a comparison of tools against the competitors in regard to feature and price." Did you look at the Short List that accompanied the review? Or note the comparisons to core strengths of third-party discrete tools, or the comparison to JBuilder?

If I had unlimited space, I could probably make everybody happy -- or everybody angry, more likely. But "biased"? Sorry, the record does not support that accusation, especially if you look at my reviews of the previous VS releases.

Regards,

- Peter Coffee, eWEEK

re: Does Anyone Listen to Peter Coffee?

ocertain — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:22:00 GMT

While I appreciate Visual Studio and have personally enjoyed using it in all its incarnations (it just seems so intuitive), the platform does have its darkside. For a bit more evenhanded approach to the subject try Charles Petzold's speech delivered at the NYC .NET Developer’s Group, October 20, 2005:

http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html

Charles Petzold is among my favorite programming book authors. He is insightful and has no axe to grind. Over the years I've adopted a lot of the general programming etiquette Charles advocates.

I think his assessment of Visual Studio is on target.

Just another programmer's opinion...

On another note:

A big shout out to Vince and family. I hope you and yours have a blessed Chrstmas.

re: Does Anyone Listen to Peter Coffee?

BigJim in STL — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:26:00 GMT

Amen, brother. I have a (free) subscription to eWeek and this guy's snobbishness just puts me off so much. He throws his obviously biased opinions around as if they golden, with nothing to back them up...I wish they'd have gotten rid of him years ago!

re: Three Config File Reading Examples

Chris Martin — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:51:00 GMT

Why don't you just use what XML config lends itself to in .NET? I'm talking XmlSerializer babay!!!

re: Web Hosting and DNN Woes

VinceB — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:17:00 GMT

Out of the box, DNN is tied to SQL Server and VB.Net but the worst part is that it's slow and a little complicated to get it all backed up. We pay for play so it has a right to be a little slow. On the other side, it's an incredibly useful content management system. I just installed EzWeb and created a page. Now there is a DNN competitor in the future. Give it some Wheaties and see how it grows. Good job on that Jeffrey.