I know this is an on-going flame war, but with Expression Software and Visual Studio 2010/2012, Microsoft has some of the best tools out there for building mobile applications. Throw in testing tools, and you are at the top of the class. After using the tools and marketplace for 2 years now, I can say a couple things.
*The marketplace has come a long way. It is getting better every day. It used to be a real chore to use year or so ago. It is a lot more streamlined and clean.
*The bad press recently around marketplace submissions is a crap shoot. I've experienced similar things, but also I've experienced quick easy submissions. It honestly depends on the tester. If things seem to be going bad, there is always a manager you can contact to get things going.
*Lets be honest too. The iOS and Android marketplaces are FILLED with pure crap applications. I'm not saying that the Windows store is any better, but comparing numbers isn't fair because, most of those apps are useless and are never downloaded.
*If you know Java or Obj-C, not many people are willing or paid to jump into C#. I'm definitely not interested in learning a new language at this point in my career.
* Lastly, I think the main problem is traditional Microsoft fear/hatred. I have talked to more "hip" iOS teams that make cooler apps for android and iOS. They showed zero desire to even make an effort to make any apps for Windows Phone. The attitude I saw a lot was just pure bandwagon hatred. "Meh"
They did a lot of research and found the new start menu is much better. After using it for 6-9 months now, I can agree. Finding apps and launching them on Win 7 is much slower than Win 8. As I stated in another post, when I use Win 7 now, it just feels old and last gen.
Saying that "microsoft" killed the phone is true in a sense, but you also have to understand the company culture at MS. It is built on a lot of teams. Not one single united company where everyone shares ideas and works together nicely. You should read the history of what happened to Danger and you will see a major factor to its demise was the infighting that took place, nothing technical really. Apple/Google I think have a lot less of this kind of stuff so it was easier to let it bloom.
I come to slashdot now for random science stuff and mindless microsoft bashing. That said. Everyone I know who has used Win8 for more than a few minutes loves it. Also, when I see a survey from a random help forum...don't you think the results will be skewed?
This is one the key features I think game developers were looking for when HTML5 came out. It promised the holy grail of "write once, run everywhere". It would allow you to write a game for a browser and have it work on iPhone, Android and WP7. The issue is still that every browser and hardware device act different. A touch on one device is a tap on another. Multitouch works here but not there. Some browsers don't support audio, some don't support WebGL acceleration. This also changes all the time.
Deploying the apps is another issue as well. Once you have written a great game that looks wondering in chrome, you have to wrap it somehow to get it on devices. All of the options for wrapping right now are beta at best. There is still hacking that has to be done most of the time.
On that note, it is getting better every day, eventually you will be able to push your code to nearly every OS. But that day is not today.
Sadly English is my first and only language. Never had anyone question my grammar like that though, but I guess I've BEEN using that word incorrectly for many years?
When you are being paid for work by a client, they dictate what the work is at the end of the day. They are paying you. You can give suggestions etc, but if they want Access or only know Access, you are going to use Access. You are being "told" this is the only option and you use it. This has happened on countless clients.
This sounds like the client had requirements. No consultant in the modern day would go in there and say this is the best solution. They must of been told they had Access already and this was all they could use.
A new mission has been funded by private parties (most notably sports team owners) to send Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr. to the moon to recover said water sources. Think tanks involved with the mission have stated that moon ice water is of the "highest quality H2O" and must be collected for commercial purposes.
I didn't pay too much attention to HyperV until I started playing around with Team Foundation Server 2010. You might ask, what does an ALM tool have to do with virtualizing servers? Well, one things we found really helpful when doing automated testing, was this...you use the lab manager to spin up all your testing environments in hyperV then when a defect is encountered, the developer can spin up that environment on their laptop and actually debug defects on the server to make sure they have the most accurate test case. This eliminates the issue of "Works on laptop, don't work in test environment".
Besides that, Microsoft's virtual stuff is pretty decent, especially when it ties in their other products.
It will play into the Azure platform if it's a pure service. You can run an application on Azure with a SQL backend, and have this new compiler service build it for you.
Although from the article, I didn't even get a sense of that being the purpose. From what i was seeing, it's just a service you can run while developing that will give you more insight into the compiler's workings. You access it via VS2010 like you normally do.
I'm curious how this would play into TFS as well, if you could get more information to be pumped out from MSBuild to some sort of report.
If you code it in XNA and actually follow proper design patterns (completely disconnected UIs with Models and Views), you can code 90% of your app for both phone and xbox. The last 10% is UI formating and input events. This is XBox live stuff. We're not talking Battlefield 2 here.
I've been keeping newts and salamanders on and off for over a decade as pets. And I've seen a huge decline in diversity of the animals available from breeders. Breeders have to get breedable pairs from the wild and when the wild caught ones disappear, so do the captive bred ones. There are a bunch of newts that I have rarely seen breed in almost 10 years now. China is a major source of the species loss too.
Pretty much 90% of the cast is already doing a second MST3K show called Cinematic Titanic. Why isn't Mike in it? Lots of reasons. Why is Mike's different? I guess it's a little different. But bottom line is, Joel made a second act like a year ago. I always loved Joel way more than mike, I guess mike just needs a little help making jokes.
It's reputation and consistency. Accenture has decades of clout due to it's AA roots. They can walk into almost any industry, walk up to a business, tell the CEO: yeah we're done that. Not only have we done that, but we all these documents to follow to ensure it works.
I think that's why a lot of consulting firms can't make it to the big's. They don't have the decades of experience to throw around.
CEO's care about the delivery, and not many other firms have the track record that Accenture has. Same goes for the other big 4 consulting firms.
Accenture is a good place to start out of college, they baby you, but it can teach you how to work in the corp world. Although, I know of people who are complete failures in life/work that have been there for years and years and can't get fired for some reason. It's the place to be if you want to learn how this world works these days with off shoring, project management at an enterprise level, etc.
Accenture's projects range from $10-$1000 Million, yeah that's billion. So you have a chance to work on some huge projects.
The other good part is, if you are bored, you can bounce around to do other things.
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windows 8 has been available to devs for almost a year. It's only untested to the lazy devs that didn't download it.
Dear lord, please don't lump 6/6.5 in with 7, 7.5 and 8.
I know this is an on-going flame war, but with Expression Software and Visual Studio 2010/2012, Microsoft has some of the best tools out there for building mobile applications. Throw in testing tools, and you are at the top of the class. After using the tools and marketplace for 2 years now, I can say a couple things.
*The marketplace has come a long way. It is getting better every day. It used to be a real chore to use year or so ago. It is a lot more streamlined and clean.
*The bad press recently around marketplace submissions is a crap shoot. I've experienced similar things, but also I've experienced quick easy submissions. It honestly depends on the tester. If things seem to be going bad, there is always a manager you can contact to get things going.
*Lets be honest too. The iOS and Android marketplaces are FILLED with pure crap applications. I'm not saying that the Windows store is any better, but comparing numbers isn't fair because, most of those apps are useless and are never downloaded.
*If you know Java or Obj-C, not many people are willing or paid to jump into C#. I'm definitely not interested in learning a new language at this point in my career.
* Lastly, I think the main problem is traditional Microsoft fear/hatred. I have talked to more "hip" iOS teams that make cooler apps for android and iOS. They showed zero desire to even make an effort to make any apps for Windows Phone. The attitude I saw a lot was just pure bandwagon hatred. "Meh"
Learn how to use these. http://www.techspot.com/guides/506-windows-8-shortcuts-and-tricks/ and if Windows 8 is still slowers or as fast (steps) as Windows 7, the problem is really yourself and not the software.
They did a lot of research and found the new start menu is much better. After using it for 6-9 months now, I can agree. Finding apps and launching them on Win 7 is much slower than Win 8. As I stated in another post, when I use Win 7 now, it just feels old and last gen.
Use it for a for a few months. You'll realize the start menu is outdated. When I use Win7 no it feels clunky and slow.
Saying that "microsoft" killed the phone is true in a sense, but you also have to understand the company culture at MS. It is built on a lot of teams. Not one single united company where everyone shares ideas and works together nicely. You should read the history of what happened to Danger and you will see a major factor to its demise was the infighting that took place, nothing technical really. Apple/Google I think have a lot less of this kind of stuff so it was easier to let it bloom.
I come to slashdot now for random science stuff and mindless microsoft bashing. That said. Everyone I know who has used Win8 for more than a few minutes loves it. Also, when I see a survey from a random help forum...don't you think the results will be skewed?
This is one the key features I think game developers were looking for when HTML5 came out. It promised the holy grail of "write once, run everywhere". It would allow you to write a game for a browser and have it work on iPhone, Android and WP7. The issue is still that every browser and hardware device act different. A touch on one device is a tap on another. Multitouch works here but not there. Some browsers don't support audio, some don't support WebGL acceleration. This also changes all the time.
Deploying the apps is another issue as well. Once you have written a great game that looks wondering in chrome, you have to wrap it somehow to get it on devices. All of the options for wrapping right now are beta at best. There is still hacking that has to be done most of the time.
On that note, it is getting better every day, eventually you will be able to push your code to nearly every OS. But that day is not today.
Sadly English is my first and only language. Never had anyone question my grammar like that though, but I guess I've BEEN using that word incorrectly for many years?
When you are being paid for work by a client, they dictate what the work is at the end of the day. They are paying you. You can give suggestions etc, but if they want Access or only know Access, you are going to use Access. You are being "told" this is the only option and you use it. This has happened on countless clients.
This sounds like the client had requirements. No consultant in the modern day would go in there and say this is the best solution. They must of been told they had Access already and this was all they could use.
A new mission has been funded by private parties (most notably sports team owners) to send Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr. to the moon to recover said water sources. Think tanks involved with the mission have stated that moon ice water is of the "highest quality H2O" and must be collected for commercial purposes.
At what point do we just assume that all CC #s have been stolen and if you haven't had your card # stolen yet, it's just a matter of time.
Can this technology notify me when it discovers Wonka's river of chocolate?
I didn't pay too much attention to HyperV until I started playing around with Team Foundation Server 2010. You might ask, what does an ALM tool have to do with virtualizing servers? Well, one things we found really helpful when doing automated testing, was this...you use the lab manager to spin up all your testing environments in hyperV then when a defect is encountered, the developer can spin up that environment on their laptop and actually debug defects on the server to make sure they have the most accurate test case. This eliminates the issue of "Works on laptop, don't work in test environment".
Besides that, Microsoft's virtual stuff is pretty decent, especially when it ties in their other products.
It will play into the Azure platform if it's a pure service. You can run an application on Azure with a SQL backend, and have this new compiler service build it for you.
Although from the article, I didn't even get a sense of that being the purpose. From what i was seeing, it's just a service you can run while developing that will give you more insight into the compiler's workings. You access it via VS2010 like you normally do.
I'm curious how this would play into TFS as well, if you could get more information to be pumped out from MSBuild to some sort of report.
As a developer I mostly focus on MCPD's for whatever area I'm working on. .Net or Sharepoint. I then fill in MCTS's in the gaps for technologies like SQL Server and Biztalk.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcts.aspx
For system engineers there are specific exams too.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcitp.aspx
PMP is also a standard cert for management. I think most consultants/programmers should take this to understand the basics of how a project is put together.
http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Project-Management-Professional-PMP.aspx
If you code it in XNA and actually follow proper design patterns (completely disconnected UIs with Models and Views), you can code 90% of your app for both phone and xbox. The last 10% is UI formating and input events. This is XBox live stuff. We're not talking Battlefield 2 here.
I've been keeping newts and salamanders on and off for over a decade as pets. And I've seen a huge decline in diversity of the animals available from breeders. Breeders have to get breedable pairs from the wild and when the wild caught ones disappear, so do the captive bred ones. There are a bunch of newts that I have rarely seen breed in almost 10 years now. China is a major source of the species loss too.
"If you think about it, though, Jedi get popped by people who aren't Jedi all the time. Not everybody's fantasy is to be a Jedi, believe it or not."
I'm rolling Bantha as soon as this comes out. Look out sand dunes! i'm so gonna be role playing all over your ass! Single file bitches!
Pretty much 90% of the cast is already doing a second MST3K show called Cinematic Titanic. Why isn't Mike in it? Lots of reasons. Why is Mike's different? I guess it's a little different. But bottom line is, Joel made a second act like a year ago. I always loved Joel way more than mike, I guess mike just needs a little help making jokes.
Pew Internet & American Life sounds like a fake business. You should only listen to results from the firm of OMGPEWPEWPEW.
It's reputation and consistency. Accenture has decades of clout due to it's AA roots. They can walk into almost any industry, walk up to a business, tell the CEO: yeah we're done that. Not only have we done that, but we all these documents to follow to ensure it works.
I think that's why a lot of consulting firms can't make it to the big's. They don't have the decades of experience to throw around.
CEO's care about the delivery, and not many other firms have the track record that Accenture has. Same goes for the other big 4 consulting firms.
Accenture is a good place to start out of college, they baby you, but it can teach you how to work in the corp world. Although, I know of people who are complete failures in life/work that have been there for years and years and can't get fired for some reason. It's the place to be if you want to learn how this world works these days with off shoring, project management at an enterprise level, etc.
Accenture's projects range from $10-$1000 Million, yeah that's billion. So you have a chance to work on some huge projects.
The other good part is, if you are bored, you can bounce around to do other things.