Jeff Makes Software

Reading this blog entry from Jason Mauss, I think he misses the point of all the complaining surrounding the Whidbey delay. OK, maybe not all of the complaining, but certainly my complaining.

I read this post from Gus Perez, and to be honest I'm still shocked every time I read something like this.

Siderant: Why the hell is it that my hard drive is still churning an hour and a half after I turned it on? I hate corporate environments.

Went to DevDays in Cleveland today. It was good to meet Alex Lowe in person, as well as local Steve Smith from ASPAlliance.com.

I've been playing with Whidbey and experimenting a bit, in part for the book I think I'm writing, and also to start fleshing out how I'll build POP Forums for Whidbey. I think I need to make a design decision from the start, but because of the new IDE's abilities, what was once obvious isn't anymore.

I've seen various posts 'round here about the kind of developer personality you have. I've done some thinking, and I think by some people's standards, mine is not great.

A post last night by Joe Bork in response to a post by Rory Blyth debates whether or not Microsoft should cater to the low-end programmers and hobbyists in the development of its tools. I take the position that Microsoft had better cater to these folks. If the point-of-entry to the platform is easy, it pulls brilliant people into our profession. We need more of those, because there are too many people running around who think because they have a degree in CS that they're experts. (Note: I think everyone should go to college, live on campus and learn about life, but that's a discussion for another day. The point is that college alone is not a measure of your capability, see these comments in Rory's blog. I'd never hire those people.)

I mentioned in an earlier post today how I found the SCO lawsuits stupid. Well, the judge in the original case against IBM clearly feels the same way, ordering SCO to put up or shut up with “specificity” about the alleged stolen lines of code.