Just a comment, in South Africa a lot of the development is done in the manner as described in the article, only the large dev houses etc have the resources to utilize so many additional members to a development team who do not produce code. Most SME's have small dev or customization teams that cover many roles amongst its members. I'd say its one of the attractions for international companies in attracting the local talent here as the depth of experience is a lot broader than a strictly segmented dev path.

Our MVC5 talks to a webservice backend (also c# that runs a repo pattern with dapper as the persistence handler). It's lightning fast and pretty easy to implement. Once you have a webservice/micro service layer, your frontends are really whatever makes your project easier for quicker ROI. I've never used node but I'm wondering why one would use a javascript library for server side implementation?

I agree, the designer is nice to see how your product is building but had issues in the old asp.net days with it doing some weird things in the raw html.

We use Ionic frontends (cordova/phonegap) for mobile (pretty much angular and scripting) but all the heavy lifting is still pretty much done via webservices in .net . If I read the article correctly , they are talking about windows to mobile not windows/Linux/Mac which is where Core is targeted. VS2017 used to have an Ionic integration component, think that's changed a bit now with 2019 but we used to code in VS, deploy either to android or remote deploy to a mac to compile IOS. TBH, we didn't like Xamarin a while ago and it seemed quite bloated as a app platform.

What do folks use now? Always know them to be tellers or cashiers etc.

Nope. MS did suggest a while ago that it should not be used production wise, rather use EF or some such.

It was a good game, I saw a recent article reflecting how the British press were talking about their players and I think that's totally unfair. As a Saffer I'm proud of our boys but England did well, it was a good final. Have to say though that the tries were pure magic.

There are cloud options where you can push your code to build ios for you. For example, we use Ionic and VS but push to a local Mac pc to build. Some folks even use VM's to do that which is fine, only issue we had was when you try to debug on a local device, VM didn't play well with USB. Was a while ago though.

Nope but it stays plugged in and available at office, use my home machine to remote if anything needs doing ( nicer setup than having to fire the laptop up at a table or something )

Not me, laptop sits lid closed and additional screens off at the office. If I'm needed, use my main machine at home to remote into it for whatever requires doing.

I'll just hide in the corner over there.....sounds like something I wrote under protest in '06. :sigh:

In a CRM I worked on, had a method that cleaned up sales records,securities and associations for reps, I look at it quite fondly on a regular basis. KillRep(x)

I love the right click context menu on the vs icon if you add it to your toolbar shortcuts. It lists all my latest opened projects so its two clicks ( right , then left selection ) and I'm right where I want to be from OS to code.

Memmaker ftw. Used to hate fighting for memory and trying to run my mouse driver same time.

Pretty much nail on head. Juniors should be learning, not code automatons. Ideally if you want that it should be automated via tool or scripts.

Definitely should be on the list. I know a lot of folks didn't enjoy it but what about Event Horizon?

Mostly copper backend yes. As fibre becomes more prevalent and other meduims that may change but basic internet is always deemed a best effort service, unless you pay for a mpls level support or run it through such a pipe.

Depends on type. You do have some uncapped accounts but they normally have severe fups etc. We have a high speed ( for us ) synchronis fibre link on our mpls backbone which basically means we have decent support if it breaks. Normal internet support is laughable and best effort. To answer your question, yes we have pay per byte and unlimited, but even with unlimited its a large amount of bandwidth to use if the pipe is shared with the balance of the company and its kind of silly for every dev machine to have to do the same download rather than a single repository server that they talk to.

One annoying thing is that for the team, each machine has to download separately rather than a single offline installer shared. While this may work in most countries, we're still heavily restricted in bandwidth here ( South Africa ) and having to explain why the department suddenly pulls 50Gb in a day is an annoyance. And don't get me started on windows 10 updates and its download habbits.. But otherwise,yes , love the IDE.

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