Link Post…
Don’t Ask — Observe – I thought this is a good article to help developers (and other IT professions) step back and realize what the user really needs verses what they ask for. My exprience is the same; users want everything, until they get it, then they don’t like it.
GENNIT – Kind of interesting. Generate your code online and have it zip it up and give it back. The problem I see with it immediately is change management. Sometimes you need to regenerate, but it is possible that a template was updated since the last time you generated that could cause unexpected behaviors from the new generated code. Not good.
DiffMerge – Yet another dif/merge tool. It is free, and they aim at making it the best diff/merge tool out there. We will see. It is cross platform though, so that gives a thumbs up from me since I use both Win and Mac.
error_message_on – Lesser known feature of Ruby on Rails, but it looks great. I really like the way the error is incorporated into the label of the offending field opposed to a big list of errors. I didn’t like the use of Flicker for the photos since I didn’t have an account, so I had to leave a comment.
The Other Side of the Argument…
In my last post (Is Microsoft Losing Its Developer Base?), I presented a list of links that bring up a point that something is stirring in the MS development world. Here are some other posts that are responses to the previously linked posts. These mostly provide some counter arguments:
Maybe it’s just not that bad to be a Microsoft Developer
