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CLR/Tools
- An excellent post from Scott Hanselman on Managing Change with .NET Assembly Diff Tools.As I said, during the MVP Summit I spent time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looking at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend.
Microsoft/Ajax/Web 2.0 is Bull****
- Ayende already took Paul Graham to task for all the flaws in Microsoft is Dead. I just really despise this notion of Ajax is the savior of mankind and that this Web 2.0 stuff is anything more than bull****. As Ayende says, "The premise that Ajax is the new OS is flawed on many levels. I am writing this on a computer with fast CPU and quite a bit of memory, and I would really like those CPU cycles to do stuff that I want, not interpreted javascript in a browser window to give me something that is similar to what I want. There is a limited class of applications where Ajax applications makes sense. Gmail has the luck to hit every point on the list. Other applications are simply not viable on the web. I can't imagine an IDE on the web offering even close to the bare-bones functionality of Visual Studio, for instance, or the ease and power of Outlook."
Agile/Extreme Programming/Continuous Design
- Jeremy and I were going to co-author a paper on Continuous Design and Architecture for DevTeach before I pulled out of the conference. He begins the discussion with an excellent post here. I may turn in my (former) presentation into an article on this blog
- I love a post that is entitled "Just Some Thoughts This Morning" that turns into pretty profound thoughts on Continuous Design from Jeremy. Best part, and what I would emphasize is, "Just really good code. If I could have anything, and only one thing, it would be well written, well factored, clean, intention revealing code. Everything else is just trying to sprinkle on some heavy spices to disguise the fact that your code smells like rotten meat."
Software Architecture
- Nice set of 10 Links for 4/9/07
- My favorite links to Prag Dave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient - A brief summary of REST and problems with it, plus a proposed improvement.
Financial and Banking
Now Listening to Miles Davis - Yesternow - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
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