CI Factory RC1 1.0
posted by cr_chapman(55) 4 years, 5 months ago 0
Congrats, Jay - this is phenomenal news! I'm looking forward to trying this out... Chris R. Chapman
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Microsoft's .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer
Meh. I'm a regular user of BlogJet, but I recently decided to give Live Writer a spin - I wasn't too impressed. It has all the usual bells & whistles and frankly, redundant gold-plating that you would expect. However, when it came to actually /blogging/ with it, I found Live Writer to be a poor performer next to the austere BlogJet. LiveWriter tended to be sluggish, consume rampant amounts of memory, and while it did work well with my blog engine (dasBlog) it just didn't feel as "tight" as BlogJet. And here's the coup de grace: After reviewing Live Writer (free) I *paid* for BlogJet's unlimited license. CRC.
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If you don't get where Chad is coming from, you just haven't been around long enough or worked on enough projects to understand the pain that a good number of your peers have experienced. Don't worry though: In time, you will. ;)
Five years? I rest my case.
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Brilliant satire... =)
Have any of the nattering nabobs of negativity on this thread actually *read* the post? From end to end? I can't imagine so, because the comments seem to be missing the point, even for detraction. @bladefist: Your "five years" of "professional development" don't seem to carry much by way of maturity. To drag things back to the point of what Chad's writing about, what have /you/ done in your "professional career" to improve things - have you risked *anything* to change the cycle of project failure that he describes? @powerrush: Chad's article isn't a polemic on the plight of anti-social programmers being persecuted. It's about programmers failing to stick their necks out to change things in exchange for "job security", and having our entire industry suffer as a result. In turn, this NIMBY attitude of letting "someone else do it" has contributed to growing business' cynicism about software projects: They no longer believe estimates, expect software to come in late and with features that are half-baked, broken or unwanted. Some regard getting into a software/IT project a bigger gamble than betting your entire budget at the tables in Vegas. Read Robert N. Charette's article "Why Software Fails"[1] and make your bed: You are either going to do something - no matter how small - to up the ante and improve the lot of the industry, or you're going to shout down guys like Chad for writing about sticking your necks out and proving his point. CRC. [1] http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep05/1685/
Oy vey. @bladefist: clap... clap... clap. Bra-vo. Missed the point again, but your empassioned soliloquy was just... inspired. I'm guessing that since you've resorted to personal attacks that you haven't risked anything to raise the bar for the biz - not surprising. While you may have talents and experiences that merit recognition, it's how you've conducted yourself here that speaks volumes about your "professionalism" @powerrush: Your comments suggested a characterization of the entire piece as a sob-story - which it isn't. And no, I'm not looking for a "love-fest" where everyone agrees. Rather, if you're going to criticize the post, criticize it on its entire merits and not a single cherry-picked point that becomes misconstrued out of context.
@powerrush: You're right, to an extent. Accept my apologies. @bladefist: You're working on the failroad again by using an ad hominem tu coque. Bravo on finding my resume - I don't hide behind an "Internet Tough Guy" pseudonym, so that's not too hard. But did you read my CV as well? I guess not. In any event, I've done quite a lot to improve my own skills and those of the teams and clients I've worked with - but I'm not the one throwing my swagger around "digging down" a guy for writing about what's happening in the field. So far, you've only managed to make personal attacks - why is this? Have you nothing substantive to offer beyond making snide remarks?
@bladefist: I'm stymied - you're doing everything possible to not answer simple questions and have resorted to not just one personal attack, but several: My sexual orientation, and possibly Chad's; my resume; my experience; my ostensible comedic talents. Everything but the most relevant: My arguments which criticize your opening statement in "digging down" Chad's article based on your admitted limited experience. If anything is amusing, it's how you've contorted yourself like a pretzel to avoid direct answers and instead focus on ad hominems. This speaks again to your maturity which isn't a function of years of experience - but there's always exceptions. My advice to you is that you will move your career ahead by leagues when you "grow up" a little and focus your statements on the arguments at hand rather than resorting to personal attacks. Oh, and I really don't need your advice on my resume or CV: Again, if you've been around for a while, you know that templates and formats go in and out of fashion; all that really matters you put on the first page. And my resume has netted me many opportunities - including a rather lucrative and challenging one that I'm starting in the New Year. But hey, what do I know, right? ;-)