I am a religious guy who believes in empirical observation. I find it interesting that the account in Genesis is roughly the story of evolutio: a progression from simpler to more complex creatures. If you interpret the word "day" as "period of time" then there is no conflict at all with the Geneis account of creation and conventional scientific views of evolution.
That sounds good in theory, but what about apps that are 90% UI code? Most games have very little in the way of common code (i.e. business logic) that can be shared across implementations. Most of the code is just to make the user interface run. Under this new pattern I would have to rewrite my game for every platform, including Microsoft's own platforms. That should not be.
...the threat is alienating developers by continuing to cancel projects, frameworks and languages that we depend on. Windows 8 is already fully cloud integrated. In fact, it's TOO integrated into the cloud, in my opinion. Many features of the OS stop working when you disconnect from the internet.
The real problem with Windows 8 is the app gap that will persist because developers have to rewrite all their apps to work for Metro. All the XNA apps written for XBox and WP7 should have worked out of the box, but instead they will not work at all on WinRT and will have to be rewritten. Unless I can do that in a managed language I will not bother. Silverlight OOB apps should have been supported as well. Silverlight in the browser should be supported, especially if they are going to let Flash in. I don't want to use some HTML5 beast to run Netflix. Finally, WP7 apps should just run as metro apps with no code change. No rejiggering should be necessary. If they had done that and supported their own technologies they would have hundreds of thousands of apps in WinRT from day one. As it is they will have very few.
I have used the Express products to biuld a number of windows desktop applicatins, XNA games and Windows Phone apps. It hurts that they are taking away some of that power I have gotten used to. My apps aren't quite profitable enough yet for me to afford a full license of VS.
The irony here is that the Microsoft Adam Hartung of Forbes wants back is nothing like the Microsoft that Salshdotters would like to see. The truth is that Microsoft is more friendly towards open source and more open in general than it has ever been. They are much more willing to enter into strategic partnerships now days instead of using their might to crush small companies. The love the kinder, gentler Microsoft and I wouldn't want to see it go back to 1995.
It was a flop? My company just started using the latest version (4) of Microsoft's Robotics Studio and we love it. The ability to simulate robotics scenarios before implementing them is very helpful. We haven't run into the threading issues you're mentioning. We just spawn more threads if we need to do other computation in parallel. Works great.
Probably about 50% of the US, if you go by the Democrat/Republican breakdown. I'm just saying it may not be wise to take sides. It could alienate customers, potential talent and government support. I know as a developer who uses MS products I don't want to get dragged into a social debate when all I care about it the technology.
I agree that companies should look out for their employees but for issues as evenly split between left and right as this one, I wonder if they will deter as many potential employees as entice new ones. I think a more effective approach would be to improve remote locations so employees don't have to come to Washington to work for MS.
Yeah, you can write apps for WP7 in VB.Net or C#. It's actually pretty amazing how simple and intuititve the free tools are. You can download them and have an app running in the emulator in just minutes. Adding controls is drag-n-drop from the WYSIWYG editor. The contorl libraries are impressive, especially when you consider the freely downbloadable WP7 "Toolkit". The main thing that is different than BASIC is the powerful langauge capabilities like OOP, LINQ, properties, threading, concurrent collections, generics, closures,events, delegates, a LINQ-to-SQL embedded database, easy encryption libraries and the list goes on and on.
Yeah, the free tools are very polished. It's got a great WYSIWYG editor that lets beginners drag and drop control onto their apps. The langauge is every easy and intuitive but has tons of powerfu features, like LINQ. WP7 is definitely the most friendly OS to develop for if you are beginner.
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I am a religious guy who believes in empirical observation. I find it interesting that the account in Genesis is roughly the story of evolutio: a progression from simpler to more complex creatures. If you interpret the word "day" as "period of time" then there is no conflict at all with the Geneis account of creation and conventional scientific views of evolution.
I hereby declare it. (or you could call it a post-post-pc era, but the term post-pc didn't make sense in the first place).
That sounds good in theory, but what about apps that are 90% UI code? Most games have very little in the way of common code (i.e. business logic) that can be shared across implementations. Most of the code is just to make the user interface run. Under this new pattern I would have to rewrite my game for every platform, including Microsoft's own platforms. That should not be.
...the threat is alienating developers by continuing to cancel projects, frameworks and languages that we depend on. Windows 8 is already fully cloud integrated. In fact, it's TOO integrated into the cloud, in my opinion. Many features of the OS stop working when you disconnect from the internet. The real problem with Windows 8 is the app gap that will persist because developers have to rewrite all their apps to work for Metro. All the XNA apps written for XBox and WP7 should have worked out of the box, but instead they will not work at all on WinRT and will have to be rewritten. Unless I can do that in a managed language I will not bother. Silverlight OOB apps should have been supported as well. Silverlight in the browser should be supported, especially if they are going to let Flash in. I don't want to use some HTML5 beast to run Netflix. Finally, WP7 apps should just run as metro apps with no code change. No rejiggering should be necessary. If they had done that and supported their own technologies they would have hundreds of thousands of apps in WinRT from day one. As it is they will have very few.
I have used the Express products to biuld a number of windows desktop applicatins, XNA games and Windows Phone apps. It hurts that they are taking away some of that power I have gotten used to. My apps aren't quite profitable enough yet for me to afford a full license of VS.
The irony here is that the Microsoft Adam Hartung of Forbes wants back is nothing like the Microsoft that Salshdotters would like to see. The truth is that Microsoft is more friendly towards open source and more open in general than it has ever been. They are much more willing to enter into strategic partnerships now days instead of using their might to crush small companies. The love the kinder, gentler Microsoft and I wouldn't want to see it go back to 1995.
It was a flop? My company just started using the latest version (4) of Microsoft's Robotics Studio and we love it. The ability to simulate robotics scenarios before implementing them is very helpful. We haven't run into the threading issues you're mentioning. We just spawn more threads if we need to do other computation in parallel. Works great.
After fighting with openstack on my hardware for months with no success, this will be the final straw that pushes me to a 100% Azure.stack.
Probably about 50% of the US, if you go by the Democrat/Republican breakdown. I'm just saying it may not be wise to take sides. It could alienate customers, potential talent and government support. I know as a developer who uses MS products I don't want to get dragged into a social debate when all I care about it the technology.
I agree that companies should look out for their employees but for issues as evenly split between left and right as this one, I wonder if they will deter as many potential employees as entice new ones. I think a more effective approach would be to improve remote locations so employees don't have to come to Washington to work for MS.
Yeah, you can write apps for WP7 in VB.Net or C#. It's actually pretty amazing how simple and intuititve the free tools are. You can download them and have an app running in the emulator in just minutes. Adding controls is drag-n-drop from the WYSIWYG editor. The contorl libraries are impressive, especially when you consider the freely downbloadable WP7 "Toolkit". The main thing that is different than BASIC is the powerful langauge capabilities like OOP, LINQ, properties, threading, concurrent collections, generics, closures,events, delegates, a LINQ-to-SQL embedded database, easy encryption libraries and the list goes on and on.
Yeah, the free tools are very polished. It's got a great WYSIWYG editor that lets beginners drag and drop control onto their apps. The langauge is every easy and intuitive but has tons of powerfu features, like LINQ. WP7 is definitely the most friendly OS to develop for if you are beginner.