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My experience in NYC financial

On: .Net Programmers Fall in CNN's Top 5 In-Demand

So, while this article says that demand is high for "Developers who are expert users of Microsoft's software programming language .NET...". You should focus on the key-word here, "expert". I think what they are infering here are people who know the ins-and-outs of the framework and the language, the software engineering process.

We have high demand for "expert" .Net developers. But the pool is so limited. Most candidates we interview come from non-enterprise groups. Their knowledge of the framework (or any framework) is limited. And they lack sound software engineering experience.

We do find plenty of Java developers with enterprise experience and from rich software engineering experience. We've hired Java developers for .Net positions, and in all cases they have transitioned well and exceeded expectations.

So, for my company at least, we have high demand for "expert" .Net developers which is being met by java developers.

My company's experience might be unique considering we are in NYC, and many of the Java folks we interview are from large financials.

Re:Style over function?

On: Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target

To debug an ASP.NET application, you must be an administrator on the machine that the ASP.NET Web server is running or your name must be in the Debugger Users group if the ASP.NET worker process is running under your user account.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/vsdebug/html/vxgrfaspnetdebuggingsy stemrequirements.asp

Visual Studio .NET is Windows Logo compliant, so you would expect that it runs as a restricted user. However, even though the vast majority of all functionality works in constrained permissions, there are a few tasks that are slightly more difficult in this model, either because of operating system limitations or the fundamental nature of the tasks being performed.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url= /library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/tchDevelopingSoft wareInVisualStudioNETWithNon-AdministrativePrivile ges.asp

You can work around these issues by non-default configurations.

But would you really want to?

Re:Style over function?

On: Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target

Ummm... I don't know how good an IDE is without a debugger. So I'd have to say it is required. That is unless you want to debug. You could just have some extra "features" in your code.

Re:Style over function?

On: Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target

Microsoft is to blame for much of the security issues, but also a major part of the problem is third-party developers! It would help if application developers would realize that Windows is a multi-user system and actually follow Microsoft's reference guides for how to program in this environment instead of forcing the user to be an Administrator to actually use their program.

For instance Visual Studio .Net and Microsoft Visual Interdev require administer priv for most of their features.

So just how is it a "third-party" problem?