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More thoughts on Microsoft Lightswitch
A couple weeks ago, Microsoft announced a tool called Lightswitch, and the response in the development community has been almost universally tepid. One of these responses really caught my eye, though. It was from Bill Vaughn, who’s been the patron saint of Microsoft data access for as long as there’s been Microsoft data access. This [...]
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 [...]
Thanks for the help
If you’re hypothetically considering changing the interface of your application so completely that users can’t find the stuff they need in the places where they’re used to finding it (Office, I’m looking at you…), you might be expected to have your users need to use “help” a bit more than normal. And if you expect [...]
Nothing short of world domination will do
A good friend of mine sent me an email commenting on the changes in Apple’s Developer Program license for the 4.0 iPhone OS, and I decided to share my thoughts here, as my email grew to become the tome you see here. Image via Wikipedia Apple has, as you’ve probably heard, indicated that it will allow [...]
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 [...]
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