what did they find wrong with MongoDB, apart from rumour.
I doubt RavenDB is any different really, it looks and feels the exact same (except written in.NET so you have a lot of garbage and resource issues to deal with), same as Cassandra (written in java).
Maybe erlang isn't as good as they say, or maybe CouchDB isn't as well written as they say.
Things like SQL injection attacks simply should not exist.
HTTP API. Being able to query the DB from anything that could speak HTTP (or run curl) was handy.
so sql injection is real bad, bad design of SQL... yet allowing any old HTTP javascript queries is somehow ok. Yes, incompetent developers indeed.
They also say
Why are we still querying our databases by constructing strings of code in a language most closely related to freaking COBOL, which after being constructed have to be parsed for every single query?
apart from the concepts of query caches - and stored procedures - so what if the language is related to COBOL, javascript is closely related to C which is almost as old. And that has plenty of relations to Algol which is even older.
So yes, it sounds like they havn't really got a clue. Great advert for their business!
its very valid - while I am fortunate enough to have a nicely working ADSL connection (except when it fails, like it did yesterday night)(and guess what I'll be wanting to do when I have no net? yup - play games) there are many people who have crap or next to no connections.
My mate lives a long way from the exchange, he gets 400kbps download. There was a TV program on the other week about a couple living in the middle of nowhere that couldn't even get that.
or more likely, they don't want you to sell it 2nd hand. So all the new players who want to play, cannot pick up a copy cheap off ebay, they'll have to buy the full-price retail version.
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so you just run the server code on your local PC - no problems.
Of course, that doesn't let you prevent cracked games, nor provide a real-money marketplace. I wonder if the cost of piracy outweighs the cost of running all those servers and admin staff (that currently cannot keep up with the load).
why? Look at, say, Apple's stock price - currently ten times what it was in the year 2000. Even IBM has done better than MS, as did HP (even though its recently dropped, it's still a better investment than MS!)
So, sure, there was a bit of a drop in the price but well-managed companies with a bit of vision for the future managed to do well. Microsoft, even with its huge cash reserves and potential for research, did.... nothing.
Unfortunately, another company has shown that the 'developers, developers, developers' thing is false. That people buy Microsoft not because of the apps those devs create, but because they have little choice in their desktop OSs. At best, the 'developer' mantra is more of a cartel - you have to buy what we want you to buy because we've bribed all the suppliers.
There was another company that said "users, users, users", and strangely enough (even though it treats its developers to the worst programming language there is) users have flocked to their products.
Its about time the rest of us realised that we, as developers, are not here for our own benefit, we're here to give those users what they want. Microsoft might start doing well again if they realised this too.
Apparently it was Bob Muglia, who turned the 'server and tools' division from a bit of a cost-centre that was only useful in helping sell other Microsoft products, to the 3rd biggest division bringing in £15bn in revenues.
Of course, he had to go when Ballmer realised he was a potential successor.
yep, those CEOs are much better - they understand that if things went really down the toilet, the government would step in and fix their mess for them. It takes talent to be able to do that, even if it is immoral, unethical and downright wrong.
Ballmer, he's less than ineffective. He's just plain useless, they might even have done better if they just didn't bother with a CEO at all.
but it probably would - people would not stop buying cars, but who'd set up a factory in a ex-GM factory when they could set one up in China or Germany?
What would happen is that existing factories would ramp up their production, not that the ex-GM factories would suddenly reopen and continue making cars as if nothing had happened. Look to the UK for an example of what happens when the car plants shut. Best you can hope for if government-supported foreign investment.
you only need objective-c on Apple for some parts of the GUI. The rest can be written using plain old C. Compare this to using WPF on Windows.
Don't forget the whole point was about vendor lock-in, C# is a Microsoft only technology that only works on Microsoft stuff (lets forget Mono for practical purposes), this is what give it it's lock-in - you don't *have* to use it to create apps on Windows (but you do if you're deploying to Windws phone for example) but if you do learn C# you're not going to be deploying to Mac. That's what lock-in is all about, once you've learned the Windows tech, you're now a Windows developer. Unlike C++ (say) where you are a general any-platform dev (that uses platform-specific libs).
You don't even need to use objective-C for Mac development, Qt (for example) runs happily on the Mac, so perhaps you need to take your own advice about ass-talking.
And for a company like Adobe with a massive customer base using its Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash Professional, the bandwidth cost alone can be substantial
you know what, if they such a massive customer basse, then they would have already made massive profits from those 'massive' sales. So the company just forgot to factor in the percentage for maintenance from those sales.
Its a bit pathetic really, unless their development costs are so great - but then I'd say the management and developers are at fault, patching isn't a particularly difficult task once you've done the fixes for the current version anyway.
yes, that is the case - you can reference an assembly written in any.NET language without knowing what created it - the import will read the metadata and give you a list of the classes etc that are contained within it.
The same applies to COM - you access the dll via the IDL definition (or the compiled version of the same) so it doesn't matter what you wrote it in.
They are now doing something similar with WinRT - any language will create a dll, but it creates a.winmd file to go with it that contains the metadata (think of this as an automatically-generated header file, if you're a C dev)
But.. think of it like this, if you can generate 'extern C' functions, you can write any module in any language and then have it consumed by any language that understands binaries with C-exported functions. You could say that the MS improvements just give you class-based instead of function-based exports (that can only be consumed by MS apps admittedly)
MFC is really easy - to do a bit of GUI it's very simple to add 1 variable, 1 line of DDX macro and 1 line entry in the resource file. That gives you a GUI control, a variable to bind to it and binding between the 2. It really is very simple and straightforward, though it may not be the best and Microsoft quite happily made a lot of complexity available if you can't keep your code simple.
Compare that to WPF - big lump of XML, new class with member variables and properties to access them, and horrible binding expression to tie the two together, plus a bunch of IPropertyChangeNotification implementations.
One think I read recently was a blog of a.NET developer who decided to switch to iOS development.
He thinks the frameworks are better than MS's tools:
IB rocks. It's so good that I have never once needed to look at the XML it generates to serialize UIs. Imagine using Cider or Expression Blend and never needing to look at and edit XAML by hand!
and is complementary about iOS itself:
iOS apps run lightning fast. Not having the overhead of a managed runtime environment, a garbage collector, code-access security, etc. really helps keep iOS apps fast and easy on the battery
I just think its a bit of a shame they went with objective-C which is a bit strange, they might have been better off with C++ which has as many quirks as obj-C but is more widely known and is just as performant.
the assumption that you can run a VM on Windows 8 RT. You wouldn't be replacing the browser anyway, you'd be running an entire OS in the VM - the article is about how Metro apps on Win8 will use nothing but IE.
MS says the reason is to improve performance and reliability and security. How I laughed.
and why not - Apple has sold well with their kit, Dell wants a piece of that and is initially targetting Android development.
From an article of the register:
Dell is crafting a tool with coders that connects to a GitHub repository and pulls down âoedeveloper profilesâ â" a toolchain configuration built to suit a particular type of work - the first of which are targeting Android, Ruby and JavaScript development. After these Dell wants the community to build profiles of their own and it's inviting feedback at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, California, this week
So, that's the benefit - preinstalled developer toolchains for web devs who (presumably) can't figure out how to install all that complicated stuff for themselves:)
well, maybe they should call it a 'professional' laptop and sell it to businesses - like the majority of their sales.
if it comes installed with everything you'd want, I doubt anyone would wipe it and start over, there comes a point where you just don't want to play with these things, you want to get work done. If they get a Linux install working (and that really means sorting all the driver issues like power management, and all the cheapest components Dell has a tendency to put in there from version to version) then it might well be a very good idea.
Besides, knowing Dell, it'll still have Windows as an option.
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I do the same - ebay for DVDs a year (or a few months, depending how good the movie is) after it was released and you get it for next to nothing.
The only trouble is trying to remember which 'hot' movies actually looked like they were any good.
what did they find wrong with MongoDB, apart from rumour.
I doubt RavenDB is any different really, it looks and feels the exact same (except written in .NET so you have a lot of garbage and resource issues to deal with), same as Cassandra (written in java).
Maybe erlang isn't as good as they say, or maybe CouchDB isn't as well written as they say.
true, just reading their blog
Things like SQL injection attacks simply should not exist.
HTTP API. Being able to query the DB from anything that could speak HTTP (or run curl) was handy.
so sql injection is real bad, bad design of SQL... yet allowing any old HTTP javascript queries is somehow ok. Yes, incompetent developers indeed.
They also say
Why are we still querying our databases by constructing strings of code in a language most closely related to freaking COBOL, which after being constructed have to be parsed for every single query?
apart from the concepts of query caches - and stored procedures - so what if the language is related to COBOL, javascript is closely related to C which is almost as old. And that has plenty of relations to Algol which is even older.
So yes, it sounds like they havn't really got a clue. Great advert for their business!
its very valid - while I am fortunate enough to have a nicely working ADSL connection (except when it fails, like it did yesterday night)(and guess what I'll be wanting to do when I have no net? yup - play games) there are many people who have crap or next to no connections.
My mate lives a long way from the exchange, he gets 400kbps download. There was a TV program on the other week about a couple living in the middle of nowhere that couldn't even get that.
or more likely, they don't want you to sell it 2nd hand. So all the new players who want to play, cannot pick up a copy cheap off ebay, they'll have to buy the full-price retail version.
so you just run the server code on your local PC - no problems.
Of course, that doesn't let you prevent cracked games, nor provide a real-money marketplace. I wonder if the cost of piracy outweighs the cost of running all those servers and admin staff (that currently cannot keep up with the load).
why? Look at, say, Apple's stock price - currently ten times what it was in the year 2000. Even IBM has done better than MS, as did HP (even though its recently dropped, it's still a better investment than MS!)
So, sure, there was a bit of a drop in the price but well-managed companies with a bit of vision for the future managed to do well. Microsoft, even with its huge cash reserves and potential for research, did.... nothing.
You're saying Microsoft *paid* for this article?
I can't see the Linux foundation being able to afford Forbe's article-writing fees.
Unfortunately, another company has shown that the 'developers, developers, developers' thing is false. That people buy Microsoft not because of the apps those devs create, but because they have little choice in their desktop OSs. At best, the 'developer' mantra is more of a cartel - you have to buy what we want you to buy because we've bribed all the suppliers.
There was another company that said "users, users, users", and strangely enough (even though it treats its developers to the worst programming language there is) users have flocked to their products.
Its about time the rest of us realised that we, as developers, are not here for our own benefit, we're here to give those users what they want. Microsoft might start doing well again if they realised this too.
Apparently it was Bob Muglia, who turned the 'server and tools' division from a bit of a cost-centre that was only useful in helping sell other Microsoft products, to the 3rd biggest division bringing in £15bn in revenues.
Of course, he had to go when Ballmer realised he was a potential successor.
yep, those CEOs are much better - they understand that if things went really down the toilet, the government would step in and fix their mess for them. It takes talent to be able to do that, even if it is immoral, unethical and downright wrong.
Ballmer, he's less than ineffective. He's just plain useless, they might even have done better if they just didn't bother with a CEO at all.
but it probably would - people would not stop buying cars, but who'd set up a factory in a ex-GM factory when they could set one up in China or Germany?
What would happen is that existing factories would ramp up their production, not that the ex-GM factories would suddenly reopen and continue making cars as if nothing had happened. Look to the UK for an example of what happens when the car plants shut. Best you can hope for if government-supported foreign investment.
you only need objective-c on Apple for some parts of the GUI. The rest can be written using plain old C. Compare this to using WPF on Windows.
Don't forget the whole point was about vendor lock-in, C# is a Microsoft only technology that only works on Microsoft stuff (lets forget Mono for practical purposes), this is what give it it's lock-in - you don't *have* to use it to create apps on Windows (but you do if you're deploying to Windws phone for example) but if you do learn C# you're not going to be deploying to Mac. That's what lock-in is all about, once you've learned the Windows tech, you're now a Windows developer. Unlike C++ (say) where you are a general any-platform dev (that uses platform-specific libs).
You don't even need to use objective-C for Mac development, Qt (for example) runs happily on the Mac, so perhaps you need to take your own advice about ass-talking.
And for a company like Adobe with a massive customer base using its Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash Professional, the bandwidth cost alone can be substantial
you know what, if they such a massive customer basse, then they would have already made massive profits from those 'massive' sales. So the company just forgot to factor in the percentage for maintenance from those sales.
Its a bit pathetic really, unless their development costs are so great - but then I'd say the management and developers are at fault, patching isn't a particularly difficult task once you've done the fixes for the current version anyway.
when $3.84 billion just isn't enough...
yes, that is the case - you can reference an assembly written in any .NET language without knowing what created it - the import will read the metadata and give you a list of the classes etc that are contained within it.
The same applies to COM - you access the dll via the IDL definition (or the compiled version of the same) so it doesn't matter what you wrote it in.
They are now doing something similar with WinRT - any language will create a dll, but it creates a .winmd file to go with it that contains the metadata (think of this as an automatically-generated header file, if you're a C dev)
But.. think of it like this, if you can generate 'extern C' functions, you can write any module in any language and then have it consumed by any language that understands binaries with C-exported functions. You could say that the MS improvements just give you class-based instead of function-based exports (that can only be consumed by MS apps admittedly)
no, C# is based on vendor lock-in, its just that the vendor is Microsoft and they have a near monopoly on desktop apps.
objective-C is also based on vendor lock-in, its juss that this vendor is Apple but they only have a majority share of mobile apps.
When I look at lisp all I see is endless streams of ()()())))) and my brain instantly reboots in a violent seizure.
when I see ()()())))) I think of XKCD
MFC is really easy - to do a bit of GUI it's very simple to add 1 variable, 1 line of DDX macro and 1 line entry in the resource file. That gives you a GUI control, a variable to bind to it and binding between the 2. It really is very simple and straightforward, though it may not be the best and Microsoft quite happily made a lot of complexity available if you can't keep your code simple.
Compare that to WPF - big lump of XML, new class with member variables and properties to access them, and horrible binding expression to tie the two together, plus a bunch of IPropertyChangeNotification implementations.
One think I read recently was a blog of a .NET developer who decided to switch to iOS development.
He thinks the frameworks are better than MS's tools:
IB rocks. It's so good that I have never once needed to look at the XML it generates to serialize UIs. Imagine using Cider or Expression Blend and never needing to look at and edit XAML by hand!
and is complementary about iOS itself:
iOS apps run lightning fast. Not having the overhead of a managed runtime environment, a garbage collector, code-access security, etc. really helps keep iOS apps fast and easy on the battery
I just think its a bit of a shame they went with objective-C which is a bit strange, they might have been better off with C++ which has as many quirks as obj-C but is more widely known and is just as performant.
the assumption that you can run a VM on Windows 8 RT. You wouldn't be replacing the browser anyway, you'd be running an entire OS in the VM - the article is about how Metro apps on Win8 will use nothing but IE.
MS says the reason is to improve performance and reliability and security. How I laughed.
and why not - Apple has sold well with their kit, Dell wants a piece of that and is initially targetting Android development.
From an article of the register:
Dell is crafting a tool with coders that connects to a GitHub repository and pulls down âoedeveloper profilesâ â" a toolchain configuration built to suit a particular type of work - the first of which are targeting Android, Ruby and JavaScript development. After these Dell wants the community to build profiles of their own and it's inviting feedback at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, California, this week
So, that's the benefit - preinstalled developer toolchains for web devs who (presumably) can't figure out how to install all that complicated stuff for themselves :)
16x10 is the best resolution, especially now the docks of your window managers are finding their way to the side (where they used to be, decades ago).
well, maybe they should call it a 'professional' laptop and sell it to businesses - like the majority of their sales.
if it comes installed with everything you'd want, I doubt anyone would wipe it and start over, there comes a point where you just don't want to play with these things, you want to get work done. If they get a Linux install working (and that really means sorting all the driver issues like power management, and all the cheapest components Dell has a tendency to put in there from version to version) then it might well be a very good idea.
Besides, knowing Dell, it'll still have Windows as an option.
This is what all linux distributions do and it works pretty well. I expect the win8 app store will do something like this.
for a fee.