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http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html not sure ... about that one :D

["What are you working on?" is] a useful question.

It's still a complex question: What sub-step of what step are you on of adding what feature to what module, and to which bullet points promised by marketing does it contribute? There are five wh's in that, and answering all of them at once is like giving a stack trace.

For instance if you need to interface to a particular feature it is much easier to get going on that if you actually know the person who works on that feature the most.

Then the question becomes "What modules do you maintain?" or "Do you know who maintains this form or that report?"

Or it's time to pick some poor soul to do your code review and you need to know what people work on who might be most familiar with that piece of code.

I'd start by looking at who has made the last few commits to the module.

I strongly recommend you read Ted Dziuba's article "Monitoring Theory". A little preventative medicine will do wonders.

http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

To quote Ted Dziuba I can't wait for NoSql to die.

Yours In Miami,
K. Trout

and full of platitudes.

For truly clean coding, I suggest soap;
however,

( To quote William Jefferson Clinton: )

"I feel your pain.

Would you want some grizzled-too-early looking guy writing your code? Not me!

Now seriously, doesn't it make more sense to do some research before plunking down your cash? Use the best tool for the job. My Mac is aces for video editing and processing. The *nix core lets me use scripting where Windoze requires an application. Linux makes the best server, a darn fine phone OS, and has utilities that are just a pain in the neck to assemble on any other machine. Windoze will always be great for gaming and general purpose computing.

If you program, your machine type depends on which platform you program for. Linux for Linux. OSX for OSX. Windows for Windows. Seriously, who among us owns the one machine? When was the last time you held you digital life on a single hard drive? Were you wondering why you never saw Alanis Morissette's face in her videos?

Personally, I think the dude's article is kinda humorous.

First, I love how everyone here is bashing him as a troll, calling him a non-developer, etc, etc. Yet anytime we get some glowing salespiece in favor of Apple, the fanboys start crawling out of the woodwork and modding down anyone who calls them on their BS.

Aw, does it hurt to have your favorite little toy's failings pointed out?

Looking at the tone of the piece, I'm pretty sure it's not a troll and it's not a marketing hit piece, and in case you were too lazy to click the link above, he *is* a professional developer. I think it's straight from the heart, and it hit so many chords with me, I couldn't help but wipe a tear from my eye. And I don't even do web development.

Second, I love how everyone is ignoring the points he backed up well. Any takers for the packaging mess in OSX that resembles Windows more and more? How 'bout that price tag? Sure, keep telling yourself you're paying for higher quality or "design".

As for some of the attacked points:

• Emacs: until you've written code with it - and I mean plenty of code - you just won't understand. Can anyone even name an editor/IDE besides vi where you don't have to remove your hands from home row all day? I've tried other IDE's (mainly Eclipse-based) that people have recommended. It always pains me how clumsy, slow, and resource intensive they are. Why should I have to break my flow to move my hand to the mouse to do something? Or even off of home row? Also, It is well-regarded advice that your editor should be configurable, extensible and programmable. Emacs and vi are the only two editors I've ever used that meet this criteria.
• His website design: don't know about you, but lack of Flash and JavaScript, as well as an elegant, readable layout are signs of a mature web dev, one who has gotten over the point-and-click to create a website phase.
• Portability/platform issues: this really shouldn't be an issue, especially with something as high-level as web dev, but unfortunately, it sounds like an OSX problem. Probably related to the packaging problem he mentioned (and no one has challenged). He's not the only who's had issues with OSX (and in case you don't know who Randall Schwartz is, you need to GTFO of slashdot and web dev right now).

Quite frankly, I'm glad to see this kind of article get posted. We have far too many Apple and MS fanboys here; slashdot was created by Linux users for Linux users, and this kind of from the heart, in the trenches opinion piece is much more worthy than some marketing piece about the latest shiny piece of crap to come out of Steve Jobs' ass.

Founder != Professional Developer.

Ted Dziuba's vitae

Oh, look at that, I just tore your argument to shreds. Pity

Just because somebody chooses to not program after hours does not mean they don't have passion. Nor does it mean they suck. http://teddziuba.com/2009/10/i-dont-code-in-my-free-time.html

Somebody who likes to bitch on a blog about stuff, but disables comments. Not being too harsh I think (from his blog) that his carear so far (not including bitching on blogs like uncov and the register):
write unicode support for employee database at google (CBA, I think he has a point, if you weren't employed to solve exactly that kind of fucking problem)
write new search engine (CBA)

Now people get a bit sick of RMS/Linus/(etc i really don't follow that kind of blog)'s whining, but i most of those guys do have a track record featuring at least one success.

http://teddziuba.com/2009/08/a-happy-life-without-the-whini.html/