Contents tagged with Miscellaneous
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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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Contact form for emailing me has been disabled for now
I've disabled the contact form on this blog to email me, as spammers have found a way to spam me through that form and as I don't like spam, I have disabled that form till Telligent patches this hole (if ever).
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Oh no, another tag-youre-it game!
Sahil tagged me in the never-ending-series of tagging other bloggers. This time it's about Stuff I wouldn't wanna live without. Read Sahil's list here. The funny thing about these tagging games is that despite the useless babble that's mostly cluttering the tag-posts, there are always a few gems to find, things which will make you think "oh that's cool, I didn't know that!". I hope my useless list will trigger some of these thoughts as well
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this.AddAward(new MVPAward());
Hurray!
. Microsoft awarded me the MVP award for C# for the 4th time!. Congratulations to all the other fellow MVP renewals and new MVPs!
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And this is why Google will win...
Jeffrey Palermo blogged tonight about his new link blog. It's not really a blog, it's a feed of shared items in Google Reader. I didn't know that was possible with Google Reader.
What a great concept: the info is already there in your reader, so why not add the blog items of various blogs you're reading to a new list, which forms a new blog? So I instantly dropped Omea Pro and moved to Google Reader with my feeds. As I read a lot of blogs every day, I will try to share the items I think are useful to all my two my readers on my shared items 'blog' at Google. It's linked at the left, but for convenience, you can also click here. There's not that much shared at the moment, but I'm currently traversing my feeds to see if I can share more stuff. Every shared items 'blog' at Google also has an RSS feed, so you won't miss a thing!
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MVP summit!
Next week, the MVP summit is again reality and I'm there
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I'm tagged and happy newyear!
First of all: Happy New Year!
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It's not about getting a free laptop, it's about credibility
So apparently some people got a free laptop which was payed by AMD and Microsoft. I say: good for them, getting gifts is always nice. (no, I didn't get one, nor would I have accepted it). However a gift from a company has a side effect: there's always a catch.
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So you wonder why it takes Microsoft a long time to ship an application?
Read: http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html
I'm simply speechless
. Today I read Sam Gentile's remark that Vista itself is its own killer app. Reading the article linked above I can't believe Vista can even be considered a forward, as it's definitely a BIG step back for software engineering.