Are you on the cutting edge of technology?
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You are not up to date. the new verion of .NET is 4.5.
Small minor versions are not worth the hassle, are they? :)
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
nope. about the same as you; around 3 years. I tend to value staiblility more than cutting edge. I'm just about to relase my first .NET 3.5 project (but still winform based), I'm not even going to look at winRT for a few more years, until it gets some actual user base with win8. Because of this, it looks like I can skip WPF altogether, :laugh:
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I'm not, i've fallen off the edge a long time ago... :laugh: Seriously, i consider i'm almost at the edge of software development, because i'm developing for Windows 8 Modern UI, C# and XAML,, i'm not at the edge, because to be there, i must be doing it on Javascript and HTML5, but being in the edge is risky as you may, well, fall off. :-D
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
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Small minor versions are not worth the hassle, are they? :)
CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...
Of course if you are on the cutting edge... Unfortunately I am not on 4.5 either, and still working to understand some older technology. :-D
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I think I have a reasonable enough understanding of what MVVM is, I have just never seen the need for it in my own realm.
I am a big fan of MVVM. Amazing how much cleaner it makes my code from what I had when working with WinForms, and forget basic ASP.NET
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I am a big fan of MVVM. Amazing how much cleaner it makes my code from what I had when working with WinForms, and forget basic ASP.NET
It clearly works because many people enthuse about it. I am just not that fussed about getting into a tizzy because I have code in the code behind file.
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I was on the bleeding edge of Microsoft, but we have given that up as a mugs game given the speed at which Microsoft shifts direction now.
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No, not anymore. The stuff I develop is for the Windows desktop. C# under VS2008 with SQL Server 2008 R2 and Active Reports is going to be about it for me. The product I've built will run on any Windows desktop from XP up. That's enough audience for me. My equipment is all up-to-date so I'll probably stick with what I have for a long time now. I'm tired of changing toolboxes.
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
I feel the same thing. In order to keep myself up to date, I'd need to sacrifice time at home and with family which I'd rather user for my own entertainment. I take the "get a life" quote very seriously :)
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
The software industry is like a bucketfull of broken glass. There's so many cutting edges that the only way to be on them all is to bleed. You can be a cutting edge web-front-end guy, but what do you know about embedded? What do you know about graphics? What about big data? Every day you make a bet on the future of technology, whether you know it or not. You spend time becomming more proficient with a given toolset. You're betting that this toolset won't become obsolete. Bet on a Microsoft toolset and you know you'll have to relearn frequently, but the tools are widely deployed so there's lots of work. Bet on a Linux toolset, and your employment options are more limited (for now), but the rate of change is far slower. A story: I made a conscious technology bet on C++ (on Windows) in 1995. I've spent lots of effort keeping my C++ skills cutting edge. Around 2005, this began to look like a bad bet. Java was everywhere, and if it wasn't java, it was C#. "Everybody" said C++ was a dead language. I was in a quandry. C# or Java, C# (and windows) or Java (and linux)? It was so hard to see the future that I didn't go either way. So, along comes 2008, and all of a sudden all the people who built web sites and tools and operating systems in C# and Java are having scaling and performance issues because it isn't fast enough, and you start hearing that the really hardcore companies are going with C++. Turns out that "everybody" was PR flacks from Microsoft beating the C# drum, and new grads who only knew Java. C++ wasn't trendy, but it delivered the mail. If there's a moral to this story, it's this; find a tool or a couple of tools that are widely deployed, and work to achieve mastery of those tools. Keep your eyes open for new tools that look productive, but don't worry about being trendy or cutting-edge. And give up trying to predict the future. Change when you need to. Pursue mastery the rest of the time.
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It clearly works because many people enthuse about it. I am just not that fussed about getting into a tizzy because I have code in the code behind file.
I also have no issue with code behind. If it is associated with the View, that is perfectly OK by me. In fact, if it is just associated with the View, I think it is better to have it in the view. I also do not like when the ViewModel has Visibility. That should not be in the ViewModel.
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I also have no issue with code behind. If it is associated with the View, that is perfectly OK by me. In fact, if it is just associated with the View, I think it is better to have it in the view. I also do not like when the ViewModel has Visibility. That should not be in the ViewModel.
We're probably splitting hairs here, but to me, it makes sense to have visibility in the view model; the view model tells the view what should be displayed, and the view figures out how to display it. That seems clean to me, but to each his/her own, I suppose. :)
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I'm not. My family and work, contribute to me not being able to fully immerse myself into today's cutting edge software, designs, and practices. I just don't have the time. If I made the time, then my family and work would suffer; something would have to give. My work and my skill set, is about 3 years behind today's technology in regards to what I stated above. I envy my fellow members here, that have the time, at work and at home, to be one with the force. I love reading the articles here that members such as them provide. I have currently started to sacrifice sleep, so that I can get back on track. My question...are you on the cutting edge of technology?
Sometimes I am, sometimes I am not. I am still using Visual Basic 6 and before a year I was also teaching FoxPro 2.6 for DOS! I can also implement HTML 5 and CSS 3 in web apps. However I can implement HTML 5 and CSS 3, I still prefer XHTML because still our most of projects' target audience is not that much advance. :-( Generally I use new technologies whenever possible or when client proposes or when a real requirement arise for a/some special feature(s). Sometimes I HAVE TO use older technology even if clients can adopt new technologies. A story here. I had to update (add new features to) a desktop app developed in .NET 2 (VS 2005), but as I mostly prefer to use latest technologies, I converted it to .NET 4 (VS 2010) (the latest at that time). But due to some problems regarding app's setup & installation, I reconverted it back to .NET 2! :-(