My thoughts on software development
ShareMicrosoft’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 seem [...]
ShareA while back, a friend asked me some questions about getting started with Linux. He wanted to know specifically whether he should pick up a copy of RedHat at the local retailer — for something on the order of $80.
I sent him back some notes about choosing a Linux install (distribution, or “distro”), and thought [...]
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It just happened to me again. I came into work and was greeted by the cold, grey screen that told me my PC had rebooted. Windows Update had struck again.
I’ve got a PC that hosts my development environment in a VM, so every time this happens, not only do [...]
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Mono is going to be represented at Microsoft’s PDC this year. Miguel de Icaza, who leads the open-source Mono effort, is going to present a session about Mono and .Net. If you search this blog for “mono”, you’ll see that I’ve been paying attention to these guys for quite a while now, and wondering the [...]
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