Come on, guys.
Anyone who has done any serious programming in VS.net, knows that there is much more to it than drag and drop cute little widgets. Our organization doesn't use this stuff at all...we deal with the actual code (C# specifically) and never touch the draggy droppy stuff.
The widgets are available for those "hobbyists" who want the easy solution, but there is just so much more there. More power to those hobbyists, I say - at least they are venturing into the world of programming. If they want more, VS certainly allows for them to delve *much* deeper.
This mindless anti-everything MS bigotry is just so very tiresome and annoying and reflects ever so poorly on silly posters who talk about environments of which they haven't the faintest clue. It is the very worst of/. ignorance - blatant bigotry and elitism without facts and investigation.
So please...just stop the crap. Stop the ever loving crap!! This rank ignorance just reflects ever so poorly on the entire software development community.
Can't we all just get along?
Most.NET developers run SQLServer (along with IIS if they do ASP.net) on their local boxes. It's nice to have your own "private world" in which to work.
Not quite sure if you have ever worked on SqlServer, but it is really no big deal to port something built locally on XP to something on Windows Server 2000/2003.
The only pain in the ass is keeping the dB up-to-date - we have gotten around this by building an asp.net engine to compare the local database schema with the SQL scripts located in a SVN-controlled directory.
Oh, by all means, I believe that being informed is important. And I, as I believe many who visit this page often, stay informed through the myriad of other sources available.
And, yes, of course, politics is everywhere - which is why I referred specifically to American, govenmental politics.
Slashdot does such a fine job of covering the politics and issues of the hacker subculture - better than enyone else, I believe. I think the other stuff pretty well covered elsewhere...
Ben
an yes, li
Slashdot had become a sanctuary, free of (government-oriented, American) politics.
Since - as you say - we are approaching the election, the entire media is awash in news of the elections. Blogs, magazine, ezines, newsletters, toilet graffiti.
This is understandable, but certainly exhausting. To know now that even slashdot will be splashing stories on American politics makes me just want to log out and live in some glorified hole on a Carribean island.
BenHill
Slashdot Mirror
Come on, guys. Anyone who has done any serious programming in VS.net, knows that there is much more to it than drag and drop cute little widgets. Our organization doesn't use this stuff at all...we deal with the actual code (C# specifically) and never touch the draggy droppy stuff. The widgets are available for those "hobbyists" who want the easy solution, but there is just so much more there. More power to those hobbyists, I say - at least they are venturing into the world of programming. If they want more, VS certainly allows for them to delve *much* deeper. This mindless anti-everything MS bigotry is just so very tiresome and annoying and reflects ever so poorly on silly posters who talk about environments of which they haven't the faintest clue. It is the very worst of /. ignorance - blatant bigotry and elitism without facts and investigation.
So please...just stop the crap. Stop the ever loving crap!! This rank ignorance just reflects ever so poorly on the entire software development community.
Can't we all just get along?
Most .NET developers run SQLServer (along with IIS if they do ASP.net) on their local boxes. It's nice to have your own "private world" in which to work.
Not quite sure if you have ever worked on SqlServer, but it is really no big deal to port something built locally on XP to something on Windows Server 2000/2003.
The only pain in the ass is keeping the dB up-to-date - we have gotten around this by building an asp.net engine to compare the local database schema with the SQL scripts located in a SVN-controlled directory.
Oh, by all means, I believe that being informed is important. And I, as I believe many who visit this page often, stay informed through the myriad of other sources available. And, yes, of course, politics is everywhere - which is why I referred specifically to American, govenmental politics. Slashdot does such a fine job of covering the politics and issues of the hacker subculture - better than enyone else, I believe. I think the other stuff pretty well covered elsewhere... Ben an yes, li
Slashdot had become a sanctuary, free of (government-oriented, American) politics. Since - as you say - we are approaching the election, the entire media is awash in news of the elections. Blogs, magazine, ezines, newsletters, toilet graffiti. This is understandable, but certainly exhausting. To know now that even slashdot will be splashing stories on American politics makes me just want to log out and live in some glorified hole on a Carribean island. BenHill