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A schizophrenic development platform
It’s an occupational hazard, I guess. The .Net development platform is moving at an absolutely dizzying pace these days, and there’s no end in sight. Ordinarily, you might think that this is great news for Microsoft‘s customers, because we’re getting more innovation than we can swallow. That’s good, right? Umm… Image via Wikipedia Aside from [...]
Automated patterns considered harmful
A couple years ago, if you read some of the “best practices” stuff coming out of Redmond, you’d have thought that software factories were going to transform software development. Thankfully, this turns out not to have been the case. I never met a software factory I didn’t detest almost immediately, and I’m glad the idea [...]
A feature greater than the sum of its bugs
Douglas Adams, muse to software developers everywhere, had this to say about bugs: “Just as a slow series of clicks when speeded up will lose the definition of each individual click and gradually take on the quality of a sustained and rising tone, so a series of individual impressions here took on the quality of [...]
More on “HTML is dead”
Microsoft‘s S. Somasegar (“Soma”), who heads the Developer Division, posted on his blog yesterday about “Key Software Development Trends“. I was pleased to see him include “Proliferation of Devices” among the top trends in development, but there was obviously an acute case of tunnel vision at work here, because Soma completely neglected all the non-Microsoft devices that people [...]
If HTML is dead, what’s next?
The introduction of Apple‘s iPad got a lot of people talking about “apps” again. There’s no denying the oppressive popularity of apps today; everybody’s got an app store and everybody’s playing catch-up with Apple. Apps are the new hotness. Yesterday, Stephen Forte (Is the iPhone (and Android) the harbinger of death for web pages?) observed [...]
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