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I guess I must have been asleep over the weekend, but I just picked up on the huge storm of controversy over Microsoft's People Ready campaign and how it paid bloggers to write a whole bunch of empty platitudes about a crappy marketing-drone nothing-phrase "people-ready". Microsoft has once again used dishonest tactics to try and get nice comments and it has once again blown up in their faces. One wonders when they're going to start firing the marketing morons who keep coming up...
There has been a scurrilous, underhanded (and very funny) assault on Alpha-geekdom by Craig recently. I'd just like to stand up for α-geeks, as opposed to his pathetic ω-geeks. Yes , I am indeed inordinately proud of my CodeProject article . I get irritated by people talking about datasets already , I very rarely go to conferences because I'm too busy coding, and what the hell is wrong with reading ? Hell, I have a stack of books on my table right now. Downloading porn? Well that would just...
I've been meaning to post on this topic for quite some time, and given the plagiarism debacle , I thought now might be ideal. I've seen too many developers fall into the trap of making a stupid ethical mistake. There was the UNISA student trying to con developers on a forum to do his homework. A contractor I knew who billed huge amounts every month and then slipped crates of cool drinks in the boot of his car. In the latest case, an up and coming developer trying to get some extra prestige...
I really didn't want to do this. Auratius February is an unrepentant plagiarist. On the 23rd June 2007, he posted an article entitled "ASP.net - Caching with Delegates" that was basically a word for word excerpt of the article " Advanced ASP.NET caching with delegates " by Daniel L. Fox. He even includes mistakes such as using "akey" instead of "a key". Most importantly of all, he included a little personal stuff before the ripped-off text, making it appear...
There's quite a funny joke going around: apparently Apple are releasing Safari for Windows . This is a browser so unpopular that most Mac users appear to prefer using FireFox instead. Somehow Apple think it's going to coax from IE those users (like me) who were uncoaxed by the much more impressive FireFox . Just for jollies, it appears that Safari may be a major security risk, with Aviv Raff finding a potentially exploitable memory bug using a tool he wrote, Errata Security managed to find...
From the Sydney Morning Herald , "Mr Ballmer last week said Microsoft's approach to embracing innovation involved getting its top 200 managers to forecast key technological advances in five to 10 years' time." In a technology driven company, the managers are seen as where the innovation is to occur? I'm gobsmacked. I really do hope that this was taken out of context, because if it isn't, it displays a serious breakdown in Steve Ballmers grasp on reality. Needless to say...
Well, here goes any chance of me ever getting MVP status: I think Microsoft, in the form of one Jason Weber of the Visual Studio IDE Team, have been amazingly inconsiderate, rude, and arrogant. Jamie Cansdale quite some time ago helped bring Test Driven Development to the masses by creating TestDriven.NET . Anyway, Microsoft became unhappy that he supported Visual Studio Express . They had provided a cut-down version of Visual Studio to hobbyists, and did not want extensions and add-ins in that product...
It's been quite a while since I wrote a post I was as happy with as my Building a Generic Range class (I've been struggling to get my mojo back), so I decided to submit it to CodeProject . Well, it's been moved out of the reader-submitted content area, into the main C# article, and you can find it here . Right now, it's the most popular article in the Generics section there, but given that it's 4.93/5 rating is only from 5 reviewers, we'll have to see if stays that popular...
Just a couple of follow-ups to some earlier posts. No Vista for me Yep, VS2002 and VS2003 are still not supported on Vista. Microsoft is saying absolutely nothing about the issue in the hopes it'll go away. Well, it will. I was chatting to some friends the other day and here are some details on companies that will not be migrating to Vista largely due to lack of .NET 1.1 support: 2 medical aids, an investment bank, one gigantic trading house, a large manufacturing concern and a large retailer...
Well, there has been some movement from Microsoft's side as to this whole issue of support for Visual Studio in Vista . Not much, but some. Thanks to ahmed for the link to where bharry discusses a whole range of issues. HotFixes They've agreed to now offer Visual Studio hot fixes for download. bharry was very proud that he had managed to get turn-around on this issue in only 3 hours, thinking it pointed to an agile response from Microsoft. Unfortunately the mystery of the unavailable hotfixes...
I just cannot stress how upset I am with the Visual Studio team. Since VS2005 was released, developers have been begging Microsoft for a service pack, or even to make the hot fixes freely available. No such luck. Anyway, about 11 months ago, a guy called Scott Wiltamuth announced that the Service Pack would be released in the first half of 2006. Well, since then it's been a bit of a black hole for this alleged service pack. As the bug reports have piled up and up and up, the VS team has been...
I've noticed that neither of my last two articles on sadeveloper have been given any rankings. I went and investigated, and found that no-one has bothered to give any rankings or comments for any articles (there are 4) in the last two months. I don't rate articles because it might be seen as a conflict of interest (you know, dragging another article down to make mine look better). But not everyone in sadeveloper writes articles. I don't know about the others, but I personally enjoy having feedback...