It claims to have 50,000 members, but when I signed up this week, my ID was ~30,000, so I expect that this is a little exaggerated. It appears that relatively few active members, because when I had a look round, the same faces popped up again and again.
They require you to sign up two of your friends before you have full access (to peoples profiles etc.) I guess this provides some peer pressure to be honest about yourself.
There is also a business networking site here, which is mostly poplulated by people in North America at the moment.
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MikeFM wrote: my dislike for.NET stems 100% from.NET itself. I wouldn't have liked it coming from anyone.
Please can someone explain what it is that is so bad about.NET - I genuinely would like to know, so that I can modify my opinion if necessary.
As others have stated in this thread, and I have stated elsewhere,.NET has a very well thought out class library and is very productive to use. I am an environment agnostic software engineer, and I appreciate a well engineered solution..Net seems to meet that requirement.
It seems to me that Mono's intention to enable it to be cross platform solution is both admirable and useful.
Unlike earlier Microsoft languages/environments,.NET is properly engineered. It obeys all the usual rules of OO programming, and it has a class library which is consistent and makes the programmer much very productive.
Compare this to the ugliness of Microsoft's earlier C++, with macros everywhere and a totally illogical class library.
I like the fact that.NET uses much that is best from other object oriented languages - it means that it is very easy to learn if you are familiar with the best practices in software engineering.
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In the UK there is a similar site at EveryonesConnected.
It claims to have 50,000 members, but when I signed up this week, my ID was ~30,000, so I expect that this is a little exaggerated. It appears that relatively few active members, because when I had a look round, the same faces popped up again and again.
They require you to sign up two of your friends before you have full access (to peoples profiles etc.) I guess this provides some peer pressure to be honest about yourself.
There is also a business networking site here, which is mostly poplulated by people in North America at the moment.
MikeFM wrote: my dislike for .NET stems 100% from .NET itself. I wouldn't have liked it coming from anyone.
.NET - I genuinely would like to know, so that I can modify my opinion if necessary.
.NET has a very well thought out class library and is very productive to use. I am an environment agnostic software engineer, and I appreciate a well engineered solution. .Net seems to meet that requirement.
Please can someone explain what it is that is so bad about
As others have stated in this thread, and I have stated elsewhere,
It seems to me that Mono's intention to enable it to be cross platform solution is both admirable and useful.
Unlike earlier Microsoft languages/environments, .NET is properly engineered. It obeys all the usual rules of OO programming, and it has a class library which is consistent and makes the programmer much very productive.
Compare this to the ugliness of Microsoft's earlier C++, with macros everywhere and a totally illogical class library.
I like the fact that .NET uses much that is best from other object oriented languages - it means that it is very easy to learn if you are familiar with the best practices in software engineering.