Why is Ruby on Rails all the rage at the moment, and why do a lot of .NET people seem so defensive? Undoubtedly, there is a buzz in development right now, things are changing rapidly, possibly more rapidly than they have for a good number of years. New languages are sprouting up all over it seems, with...
I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure - everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud. What Was Going Wrong? After my initial assessment, I made a quick decision that the major thing holding everyone back was an early decision...
Instead of repeating amongst us why the Entity Framework concerns us, an open letter has been written to hopefully persuade Microsoft to reconsider the Entity Framework, or at least some major aspects of it. To save me repeating it, here is what Dave Laribee said: A number of people have worked on an...