Comments on: Microsoft at a Crossroads http://webgambit.com/2007/05/31/microsoft-at-a-crossroads/ Thoughts on Software Development from Karthik Hariharan Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:11:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Evan http://webgambit.com/2007/05/31/microsoft-at-a-crossroads/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Evan Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:41:10 +0000 http://www.webgambit.com/?p=47#comment-83 <p>Yes, I agree with you. I really would ultimately like to migrate to RoR at *some* point. First, I think the number of RoR jobs needs to go up. If they can maintain their momentum, this will happen eventually. Second, I have to fall back to the Agile Manifesto. I value individuals and interactions above processes and tools. I value the talented friends and coworkers around me above the shiny new tool on the shelf. This includes those who don't see eye to eye with me.</p> <p>The community around the MS stack is really good. It just has a lot of learning to do. This includes the very smart guys working over at MS. Many of them, who create our next generation tools, don't truely get the "agile development" way of working. The recent Entity Framework bruhaha is evidence of this. BUT, times are changing, and even one of the lead EF devs said he thinks he finally gets Persistence Ignorance.</p> <p>In short, we can bail now and leave our MS community behind, or we can stick it out and watch the transformation. It will come.</p> Yes, I agree with you. I really would ultimately like to migrate to RoR at *some* point. First, I think the number of RoR jobs needs to go up. If they can maintain their momentum, this will happen eventually. Second, I have to fall back to the Agile Manifesto. I value individuals and interactions above processes and tools. I value the talented friends and coworkers around me above the shiny new tool on the shelf. This includes those who don't see eye to eye with me.

The community around the MS stack is really good. It just has a lot of learning to do. This includes the very smart guys working over at MS. Many of them, who create our next generation tools, don't truely get the "agile development" way of working. The recent Entity Framework bruhaha is evidence of this. BUT, times are changing, and even one of the lead EF devs said he thinks he finally gets Persistence Ignorance.

In short, we can bail now and leave our MS community behind, or we can stick it out and watch the transformation. It will come.

]]> By: Mike Schinkel http://webgambit.com/2007/05/31/microsoft-at-a-crossroads/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Mike Schinkel Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:22:51 +0000 http://www.webgambit.com/?p=47#comment-82 <p>It is interesting to finally start to see other people talk about the same things I've been ranting about since last October...</p> <p> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/category/Microsoft/" rel="nofollow">www.mikeschinkel.com/.../Microsoft</a> </p> It is interesting to finally start to see other people talk about the same things I've been ranting about since last October…

http://www.mikeschinkel.com/…/Microsoft

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