Are we, as Developers, bored?
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Sometimes the strangest things catch our imagination, a bit like childhood crazes like: pogs, yoyos etc Or maybe its the fact that every developer wanted to try and see the short comings of CP's design in a new browser :)
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Sometimes the strangest things catch our imagination, a bit like childhood crazes like: pogs, yoyos etc Or maybe its the fact that every developer wanted to try and see the short comings of CP's design in a new browser :)
The answers posted by me are suggestions only and cannot be used in anyway against me.
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
How could people have missed SQL 2008... It has Upsert!!
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
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How could people have missed SQL 2008... It has Upsert!!
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. -Fred Brooks
I know! That was my Word of the Day for a full 5 minutes at the time.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
i have no idea what the excitement over Chrome is about. it makes no sense to me eihter.
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
My latest excitement is the rediscovery of C/C++/erlang on OpenSolaris no less on the most beautiful VM I've seen to date (Virtualbox) :D Other than that its Ramadan, so I'm fasting. Lack of food & drink makes me testy and lethargic...
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I'm so busy earning a living so that I can make the mortgage payment, figure out how to pay for a third car, and find the money for my daughter's college education, that I find it difficult to get excited about a mere web browser. If my employer told me that I had to host our next product as an application in the C**** browser, then I'd get excited. I'm sure, however, that the novelty would wear off quickly.
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
.NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor
.NET 3.5 is a bit of an oddity. .NET 3 came out and it was out of step with Visual Studio, then 3.5 came out which introduced lots and lots of changes WRT the languages is versioned more like a service pack than a big release. And then, along comes 3.5 SP1, which offers a raft of new features and is called a service pack. Oh well.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
...that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited?
Everyone* uses a browser, so they can relate. SQL Server 2008 is great, but the number of people that 'care' about SQL Server is much smaller than the number of people that use/care about a browser. Besides, since we spend most some of our time browsing researching, something new to use to do that work is bound to catch some of our attention. * Well, not really everyone, but you get the idea :)
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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My latest excitement is the rediscovery of C/C++/erlang on OpenSolaris no less on the most beautiful VM I've seen to date (Virtualbox) :D Other than that its Ramadan, so I'm fasting. Lack of food & drink makes me testy and lethargic...
Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful
Sig history "dad" Ishmail-Samuel Mustafa "There's no point questioning the actions of a c0ck-juggling thunderc*nt" From the book of testy commentary by martin_hughes Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation
Good luck with the whole Ramadan thing mate. I'll hoist a glass of, errrr, water for you tonight.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
.NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor
.NET 3.5 is a bit of an oddity. .NET 3 came out and it was out of step with Visual Studio, then 3.5 came out which introduced lots and lots of changes WRT the languages is versioned more like a service pack than a big release. And then, along comes 3.5 SP1, which offers a raft of new features and is called a service pack. Oh well.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
The .NET naming is stupid and shows a complete disregard for marketing and for developer's sanity. Microsoft have admited that, yes, the naming is confusing and yes, hundreds of megs for a download is ridiculous. .NET: A great idea that failed to keep its focus. Let's hope they fix that.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
When we "real" programmers mention SQL Server 2008 we get accused of being on the "bleeding edge", as if that's a bad thing. :wtf: When I talked to my boss yesterday he mentioned that maybe we should upgrade one of our servers from SQL Server 2000. Getting the rest of the team to use Visual Studio 2008 was also a struggle.
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Good luck with the whole Ramadan thing mate. I'll hoist a glass of, errrr, water for you tonight.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Good luck with the whole Ramadan thing mate. I'll hoist a glass of, errrr, water for you tonight
:laugh: Cheers! :water: I'm dying for a glass of water at the moment... :sigh: Don't mind the lack of food thing, and I'm not the overly religious type so I don't get into the religious "frenzy" that some get but I hate the way working hours are shot to hell because so many decide to slack off because they're not eating/smoking/drinking coffee. I solved it by working through the night and waking up a bit later :)
Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful
Sig history "dad" Ishmail-Samuel Mustafa "There's no point questioning the actions of a c0ck-juggling thunderc*nt" From the book of testy commentary by martin_hughes Unix is a Four Letter Word, and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation
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The .NET naming is stupid and shows a complete disregard for marketing and for developer's sanity. Microsoft have admited that, yes, the naming is confusing and yes, hundreds of megs for a download is ridiculous. .NET: A great idea that failed to keep its focus. Let's hope they fix that.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Let's hope they fix that.
How can they fix it? Microsoft isn't known for going back and fixing conceptual problems with products. They simply replace them with something new and shiny, which always seems to have their own set of issues.
Software Zen:
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
what does it actually mean for anyone?
I think it's showing more and more that Web browsers are become a comodity. The more popular the number of browsers in use, the less leverage inividual browsers will have. I seem to remember something about JavaScript only taking off when netscape incorporated native support into navigator. As navigator was the defacto standard of the day, developers were not detered by incompatabilities.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Because Google still has that "new kid on the block" halo, while Microsoft isn't. Eventually Google will be regarded as Microsoft is.
Kevin
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It just hit me that I've not seen so much talk and traffic over a single topic (Chrome) for a long, long time. When .NET 3.5 was released there was barely a murmor. SQL Server 2008 was released earlier this year, then actually released just last month, but if you stepped out to get a coffee you would have missed it. Is Software Development so dull these days that it takes the release of a web browser, in beta, to get us excited? Apart from giving webdevs more gray hair by forcing them to finally stop ignoring the WebKit rendering engine (we were doing so well at ignoring Apple up until now) what does it actually mean for anyone? It's a little odd.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
There's a new browser?
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