August 2010
2 posts
Nothing has changed, and nobody's happy
In the last few weeks, Microsoft has shipped WebMatrix and LightSwitch, and further de-emphasized the efforts of IronRuby. This has caused a noticeable uptick in .NET developer anxiety and anger, at least in those who have taken it upon themselves to pursue development by taking cues from other thriving software ecosystems, and to do so loudly.
I don’t think many folks can argue that there...
Projects vs. products
Over my short career I have worked on several open source projects as contributor and creator, and throughout it all I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something uncomfortably out of place, that stewardship of open source software in the .NET community wasn’t nearly as rewarding for all concerned as it could be, or already was, in other software communities.
I think this is...