Yes, CF isn't wonderful. I just mentioned it to indicate it wouldn't be hard to get the full version of.Net running on ARM. The metro interface is a good way to have something shiny and "new" looking to sell copies of Windows 8 and their newer phones. I don't think people will be forced to write metro apps to have a business app that runs on top of windows 8. I haven't tried out their new SDK to confirm it though.
Of course doing everything to an extreme isn't a cost effective way of working. If he has his way the other developers on his team would leave or kill themselves: "But, for example, maybe junior (or specialized) developers should be writing the unit tests, leaving the more seasoned developers free to concentrate on the actual implementation of the application.". Sounds a little arrogant to me.
I can see it being useful to discourage people from hoarding information for job security and promote sharing to help make the other people on a given team more productive.
(Assuming the analysis is sophisticated enough to avoid being easily gamed and gives enough detail for managers to drill down into).
Having passion and a related formal education aren't mutually exclusive.
I don't think you will see too many people going into CS these days in the west solely for an easy paycheck, unlike during the tech boom in the late 90s.
The boom mentality seems to be alive and well in India though. I suffered through interviewing several people from a commercial tech training school there last year that had no clue... people from other walks of life, like an arts grad, hoping to magically get a high pay tech job by taking a few classes.
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Yes, CF isn't wonderful. I just mentioned it to indicate it wouldn't be hard to get the full version of .Net running on ARM. The metro interface is a good way to have something shiny and "new" looking to sell copies of Windows 8 and their newer phones. I don't think people will be forced to write metro apps to have a business app that runs on top of windows 8. I haven't tried out their new SDK to confirm it though.
Huh? Microsoft doesn't need Intel to port .Net apps. .Net applications are MSIL code and should work for for any platform they have a byte-code compiler for, including ARM. Microsoft has had .Net running on ARM devices (Compact Framework) for 10 years.
Here's a real article from Microsoft outlining development for ARM.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2012/06/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-developing-for-windows-on-arm-woa.aspx
Of course doing everything to an extreme isn't a cost effective way of working. If he has his way the other developers on his team would leave or kill themselves: "But, for example, maybe junior (or specialized) developers should be writing the unit tests, leaving the more seasoned developers free to concentrate on the actual implementation of the application.". Sounds a little arrogant to me.
I can see it being useful to discourage people from hoarding information for job security and promote sharing to help make the other people on a given team more productive. (Assuming the analysis is sophisticated enough to avoid being easily gamed and gives enough detail for managers to drill down into).
Having passion and a related formal education aren't mutually exclusive.
I don't think you will see too many people going into CS these days in the west solely for an easy paycheck, unlike during the tech boom in the late 90s.
The boom mentality seems to be alive and well in India though. I suffered through interviewing several people from a commercial tech training school there last year that had no clue... people from other walks of life, like an arts grad, hoping to magically get a high pay tech job by taking a few classes.