What to make of the vast void of silence
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Jim Crafton wrote:
I find that curious.
On a Microsoft centric development board? Why? I'm actually amazed at the number of non microsoft centric people that post here.
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I find it curious that just about no one asks why are they using the technology they are programming in. Is there a better way? If so, why am I not using it? Are there other ideas out there that I can use within my current development environment/tools? I understand that a majority of people won't ask these questions. But it appears that *no one* does. And that's what strikes me as curious and sad.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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Feeling better now? :)
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John C wrote:
I'm actually amazed at the number of non microsoft centric people that post here.
Huh... Do you find the number amazingly large, or amazingly small?
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I find it curious that just about no one asks why are they using the technology they are programming in. Is there a better way? If so, why am I not using it? Are there other ideas out there that I can use within my current development environment/tools? I understand that a majority of people won't ask these questions. But it appears that *no one* does. And that's what strikes me as curious and sad.
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Well I can't speak for others but at least once a year and during the year here and there I try to keep up with anything that will be of benefit for what I do and my customers and I make no assumptions that something better isn't out there. I'm one of a minority here who seem to have any control over what tools and technology they use at all and I keep my eyes open but I think a lot of people here are stuck with whatever they're told to use. I snap up and adopt in a microsecond any tool or technology that: A) saves me development time, B) brings more value to my end users.
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Feeling better now? :)
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Much larger than I would have expected to be honest.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
Hmm... My guess is, Windows is so pervasive that the various forms of Windows development touch a lot of programmers who might not have a great deal of interest in it otherwise. Windows clients for *nix server apps, Windows development libraries for embedded devices, testing on IE for websites... ...and so they end up here, perhaps as the result of a Google search that fingered an article, or a link or recommendation. Why any would stick around to hang out in The Lounge is anyone's guess, but... let's face it... there's precious little discussion of Windows coding going on here most days, so it's not like that would drive them off.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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I think it's got to do more with the titles of your articles and your perceived target audience than people's interest in the latest and greatest. Here's my reaction when I saw your articles: Including VCF in the title made me not want to take a good look at the articles now. For no reason other than I don't use the VCF and have no desire to start at this point in time. If I do down the road then I'll likely read your articles then. I did take a quick look, based more on your name than the article content or title. I didn't read them though. What that tells me is that I'm not in your target audience which, based on your article titles, I'd say is "VCF users on CP". That's a pretty small subset of the whole. If that's not your intended target them perhaps some rethinking of titles and/or article content would help. Cheers, Drew.
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I think it's got to do more with the titles of your articles and your perceived target audience than people's interest in the latest and greatest. Here's my reaction when I saw your articles: Including VCF in the title made me not want to take a good look at the articles now. For no reason other than I don't use the VCF and have no desire to start at this point in time. If I do down the road then I'll likely read your articles then. I did take a quick look, based more on your name than the article content or title. I didn't read them though. What that tells me is that I'm not in your target audience which, based on your article titles, I'd say is "VCF users on CP". That's a pretty small subset of the whole. If that's not your intended target them perhaps some rethinking of titles and/or article content would help. Cheers, Drew.
So if the article just had "A Model-View-Controller Design" as it's title would that have caught your interest? What difference does it make whether or not it's using the VCF? Haven't you just judged a book by it's cover without ever even glancing at it's content? Isn't that what developers regularly bitch and moan about others doing? I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time. Which is a shame, but that's life.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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So if the article just had "A Model-View-Controller Design" as it's title would that have caught your interest? What difference does it make whether or not it's using the VCF? Haven't you just judged a book by it's cover without ever even glancing at it's content? Isn't that what developers regularly bitch and moan about others doing? I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time. Which is a shame, but that's life.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time. Which is a shame, but that's life.
No it doesn't. It just says you need to let people know why they should use the framework. I've said it before - get a 60 second spiel and sell that message. I've looked at your VCF framework, and I like the look of it. Unfortunately, in this case, I don't have much need for it because I work exclusively in .NET, but if we ever move back to C++ then I would certainly take a more indepth look at it.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time. Which is a shame, but that's life.
No it doesn't. It just says you need to let people know why they should use the framework. I've said it before - get a 60 second spiel and sell that message. I've looked at your VCF framework, and I like the look of it. Unfortunately, in this case, I don't have much need for it because I work exclusively in .NET, but if we ever move back to C++ then I would certainly take a more indepth look at it.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Perhaps drop the cross platform aspect of it, and emphasize the ease of use? That it's (probably) an order of a magnitude easier to write windows apps with the VCF than it is with MFC or WTL, plus, for larger scale applications, you get a large set of built in features that are useful in day to day development that are not present in MFC or WTL, or even, in some cases, .Net.
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Perhaps drop the cross platform aspect of it, and emphasize the ease of use? That it's (probably) an order of a magnitude easier to write windows apps with the VCF than it is with MFC or WTL, plus, for larger scale applications, you get a large set of built in features that are useful in day to day development that are not present in MFC or WTL, or even, in some cases, .Net.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
Perhaps drop the cross platform aspect of it
No - that's a plus point.
Jim Crafton wrote:
emphasize the ease of use?
Definitely.
Jim Crafton wrote:
it's (probably) an order of a magnitude easier to write windows apps with the VCF than it is with MFC or WTL, plus, for larger scale applications, you get a large set of built in features that are useful in day to day development that are not present in MFC or WTL, or even, in some cases, .Net.
I'm with you there, but you need to expand on the type of cases where it's better than .NET. The biggest weakness you've got is people are doing a lot more development for the web, so there's marginally less interest in desktop frameworks now.
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So if the article just had "A Model-View-Controller Design" as it's title would that have caught your interest? What difference does it make whether or not it's using the VCF? Haven't you just judged a book by it's cover without ever even glancing at it's content? Isn't that what developers regularly bitch and moan about others doing? I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time. Which is a shame, but that's life.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
So if the article just had "A Model-View-Controller Design" as it's title would that have caught your interest?
Yup.
Jim Crafton wrote:
What difference does it make whether or not it's using the VCF?
Because it implies the article will require that I know and/or use a framework. Whether that's true or not is irrelevent - that's the feeling the title gives.
Jim Crafton wrote:
Haven't you just judged a book by it's cover
Yes! In fact, that's exactly what dust jackets on books are for - attracting attention (the book covers themselves are pretty boring). The article list works the same way. It lets people ignore the articles that don't interest them. Make your title one that hooks people's interest and you'll get a lot more people reading your articles.
Jim Crafton wrote:
Isn't that what developers regularly bitch and moan about others doing?
Maybe, but that's reality. Your title markets your article, like it or not.
Jim Crafton wrote:
I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time.
Not at all. What it means is that your expectations could be too high. You're preaching to the world and expecting the same response as though you're preaching to the choir. If you're interested in getting more readers I suggest lowering the significance of the VCF in your articles. Remove it from the title and show how you can use the MVC pattern, for instance, in general and then how you could use it with the VCF. Even then, though, the MVC topic has been done a lot lately so I wouldn't expect a huge response. Sexier topics that include VCF and MVC as secondary features are going to get a lot more bites. Cheers, Drew.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
So if the article just had "A Model-View-Controller Design" as it's title would that have caught your interest?
Yup.
Jim Crafton wrote:
What difference does it make whether or not it's using the VCF?
Because it implies the article will require that I know and/or use a framework. Whether that's true or not is irrelevent - that's the feeling the title gives.
Jim Crafton wrote:
Haven't you just judged a book by it's cover
Yes! In fact, that's exactly what dust jackets on books are for - attracting attention (the book covers themselves are pretty boring). The article list works the same way. It lets people ignore the articles that don't interest them. Make your title one that hooks people's interest and you'll get a lot more people reading your articles.
Jim Crafton wrote:
Isn't that what developers regularly bitch and moan about others doing?
Maybe, but that's reality. Your title markets your article, like it or not.
Jim Crafton wrote:
I suppose what this really tells me is that, other than myself and my own usage, the VCF is a total waste of time.
Not at all. What it means is that your expectations could be too high. You're preaching to the world and expecting the same response as though you're preaching to the choir. If you're interested in getting more readers I suggest lowering the significance of the VCF in your articles. Remove it from the title and show how you can use the MVC pattern, for instance, in general and then how you could use it with the VCF. Even then, though, the MVC topic has been done a lot lately so I wouldn't expect a huge response. Sexier topics that include VCF and MVC as secondary features are going to get a lot more bites. Cheers, Drew.
Drew Stainton wrote:
Sexier topics that include VCF and MVC as secondary features are going to get a lot more bites.
It's going to be tricky writing a WPF article that doesn't use WPF.
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Drew Stainton wrote:
Sexier topics that include VCF and MVC as secondary features are going to get a lot more bites.
It's going to be tricky writing a WPF article that doesn't use WPF.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
why I'm even bothering.
Heh, I've lost count of how many times I've asked myself that, what with univoters and unappreciative comments. In the end, I always come back to the same thing: I'm doing it to repay CP for what I've gotten here, but I'm also doing it for myself. Writing articles has been reward in itself, because of what I learn in writing them, and what I learn in other, less direct ways. I hope you will reconsider.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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I recently submitted several new articles and what has surprised me a little is how little response I got. Well actually, pretty much none whatsoever would be more correct. I would have thought that some of the ideas being presented would have interested at least some of the people here, but apparently not. Am I missing something? Does no one have any interest in anything outside of the latest and greatest that comes out of Redmond? People bitch and moan all the time at what Microsoft puts out, but when someone else comes along with an alternative, it's met with silence. I think this is a bit sad, because it means that we are locked into not *only* the development languages that Microsoft chooses to offer, but that even the design of software is now completely driven by them, alternate approaches be damned :( Doubly depressing of course is that despite a fair number of views, the uni-votes shoots the article rating to hell because so few people vote. What was going to be a series of articles now has me asking myself why I'm even bothering. Deduct man-points as you see fit.
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Really though, no one except you uses VCF here. If your articles, say were about MFC, a lot more people would like it because MFC is dominant here.
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