Contents tagged with Misc. Articles
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Follow-up on the 'Firefox v3.5 fiasco'
(Follow up to: The Firefox 3.5 fiasco)
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Software Development Meme
Shawn Wildermuth passed the torch to me (among others) in a new version of an old blog-theme. Oh well, these are always fun
. It's more or less an interview-like way of pulling trivia out of people, so here we go!
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See you at DevDays 2008!
Tomorrow, May 22nd, and Friday, I'm present at the Microsoft DevDays 2008 in Amsterdam. I'm told we get special t-shirts, so it shouldn't be hard to find me
. I'll be at the Microsoft Community Booth or in some sessions. If you want to say hi, please stop by! See you tomorrow!
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this.AddAward(MVPAwardFactory.Create());
Microsoft has awarded me again this year with an MVP award for C#! I won't be at the MVP summit this year though (held in 2 weeks).
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Anti-agile hatemail
Today I received through the contact form on this blog a hate-mail from a guy who called himself 'Ryan'. Ryan used a fake, non-existing email address so the only way to respond to him is via my blog, hence this post. Let's look at the email first:
From: ryan@notanoob.org
Subject: (Frans Bouma's blog) : anti-agile
Your post on Jeffrey Palmero's blog is laughable. He is a smart and successful person and is involved in practices that you do not understand. Your post makes you look like a moron. You obviously have a lot to learn about agile development.
The ONLY thing that works on large .net projects is the platform independent knowledge that the java / C++ / small talk community has learned over the past 20 years. I know because I work on a 3 million LOC, 200+assembly .net product every day. MS built the best development platform, but what MS teaches is crap. In the end, the culture of the development shop is what makes or breaks it. Agile practices focus on that culture. Tools and processes are secondary.
One day when you work on a real app that is more than 100K lines of code maybe you'll understand. You should not venture outside of the realm of your fan base, which is newbie developers that have a background in ASP.
I would love to see your product choke on several of our 100+GB databases.
Thanks.
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To the new weblogs.asp.net bloggers
First of all: welcome. Now, as you all might know, this blog site, http://weblogs.asp.net, has a grouped RSS feed (a couple actually), which is called the 'main feed'. If you place your post in a category which is in the default list of this site, your post will automatically end up on the main feed. This is a nice feature, but as it is used now it kills the site.
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The waterfall which makes Agile pundits go blind
DISCLAIMER: this is a bitter post. If you get offended by this post, I'm sorry, though I had to write this. If you want to leave a comment, please do so, but as it's my blog, I'll remove comments which I think are inappropriate
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Happy 2008!
I wish everyone a wonderful 2008!
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Posting something with [Name] in the text fails
I'm trying to post a new article about SqlServer paging but the query SQL I was posting contained the reference to a Name field, WITH [ and ]. This gives an error in CS 3.0 here. Just for reference :)
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MVP summit!
Next week, the MVP summit is again reality and I'm there
. I'll arrive on Sunday and will leave on Thursday, and I'll hope I'll meet a lot of my fellow MVP friends and perhaps others who are in the neighborhood