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Kent Sharkey wrote: There’s a cliché of tech professionals as hard-charging individuals tweakers, more than willing to give up food and sleep
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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The new unified API endpoint gathers (or will soon gather) all of the important data access a developer would want from Microsoft services together, meaning that instead of having to write to many different authorizations for the many varied services available from Microsoft, Office and Azure. One Endpoint to bind them, etc. etc.
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Shame they have made such a horses arse of the identity management for Personal Accounts, Organisational Accounts etc. across Azure, O365, VS and god knows what else.
When trying to move in and out of all these systems I never know if I am coming or going!
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Today we are announcing that Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services provides Team Build support for Subversion. How did I miss this HUGE news yesterday
Next they'll add SourceSafe support
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They tried to add source safe,
but it caused unresolved conflicts,
so they rolled back to the last known good version.
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Subversion is one of the best version control systems out there.......whereas SourceSafe is better left in the past where it belongs. Seriously, if you're still using SourceSafe you need to take a long hard look at your tooling.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Hearing proclamations of the death of Java is everyday business for this 20-year old giant in IT. But with the recent evangelist layoffs, rumours of Oracle’s neglect and a subdued JavaOne conference, it feels like something has changed. But should Java developers care, asks Jason Whaley. It doesn't bother me (but then I haven't written any Java for over a decade)
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Let Oracle release Java from its vice-like grip ...
... and hand over ownership to the open-source community, like Python, R, etc. 
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Microsoft has had many successful products — Windows, Office, Azure, and Xbox, to name a few. There are, however, many projects that never took off because company executives didn't see the potential of what they had built at the time. The crystal ball is a little foggy
And hindsight, etc.
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meh. It's not about the idea. It's about the execution.
Microsoft gave all of them a red hot shot but did it sub-optimally.
Google and Apple (the ones who evidently ate Microsoft's lunch) had a better, more integrated, more complete offering and built off it. Instead of launching as a side product (which many of those MS ideas seemed to be) they launched as a fundamental piece of an overall plan.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was just about to disagree with you when you said:
Chris Maunder wrote: Google and Apple (the ones who evidently ate Microsoft's lunch) had a better, more integrated, more complete offering and built off it.
But then you went and nailed it.
Chris Maunder wrote: Instead of launching as a side product (which many of those MS ideas seemed to be)
They put stuff out there and assume that being first will give them the win. They often forget that they need to keep working on something after launch (even HoTMaiL was almost ignored to death for a while).
TTFN - Kent
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And then there's the Architecture Astronauts they keep hiring as well. 
I think your point about trying to be first is very true. Many failures and few successes come from being first. You do not want to be first; you want to learn from the fools who go first -- see what the reaction is, what works and what doesn't. The first product also can't be compared to anything so there's no way know whether or not the product is worthwhile -- but the second has got to be better than the first.
Consider that your company is one of several gladiators who have to fight a lion -- let the other gladiators go first!
Would you rather produce Teddy Ruxpin or Tickle Me Elmo? 
In some of those cases (e.g. Terraserver) the failure wasn't just about being first either; it was about being too early. In fact, how popular would Goog Learth be without the ability to take it mobile?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The crystal ball is a little foggyAnd hindsight, etc.
I think you mean "Apple clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is."
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Wow, this is the first time I see dutch Yodeling 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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The release includes the first public preview of Hyper-V containers. Hyper-V containers are designed to provide an additional deployment option for scenarios that require high levels of isolation, and to give users expanded options when it comes to containers on Windows. The company previously announced a preview of Windows Server Containers and the Docker engine for Windows a few months ago. Try to "contain" your excitement.
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You should be committed to isolation for that one 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In today’s world, we wanted to focus more on building. Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of the decade, so we chose to use that as our visual interface to Docker. Based on the customizable, scriptable Minecraft server, cuberite, we built our interface based around the metaphor of shipping containers and showed the Minecraft demo at DockerCon EU 2015.
Minecraft makes everything better.
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When I first wrote down the idea for this post, I was originally thinking about how we might use agile development practices in a work place that practices Water Fall or worse. But since then, I’ve expanded my thinking to include the concept of using agile everywhere, including where it “isn’t allowed.” I tried that, but the standup meetings got a little confrontational
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Is being a contortionist counting ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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I used a Kanban board when I recently did some work on my house - it helped me do just the one job at a time and track what was done, but really it isn't "Agile" so much as "common sense". 
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For me, personal agility is characterized by being able to climb stairs two, (or even three) at a time, ...
... much like that of a deer, or a wren, ...
... during the 'second half' of ones life, 45+ age.
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The PC revolution started off life 30 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. Why, it just seemed like yesterday that I was installing it
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I still have VMs for DOS 6.22 + WfW 3.11, Windows NT 4, 2000, and XP. While I don't have much use for them, they are cool to have...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The coolest thing with the win10 picture is the background... and I can use that for win7 as well. 
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A concerned citizen has been scraping phone numbers posted publicly by Twitter users, and sending them interesting facts about cats in the hope of educating them about the internet. The only way to stop this deluge of feline factoids? Tweet "Meow, I <3 catfacts” at Edward Snowden.
"The main cause is to spread awareness of operational security," said the coder behind the project, who wished to remain anonymous due to his possible breach of anti-spamming laws. "When people tweet pictures of their drivers licenses or debit cards, they usually understand their mistake upon someone retweeting it. When they tweet their phone number, they think nothing of it." He adds: "If the messages sent to them were malicious, [they] could be exploited with ease," citing bugs like Android Stagefright as a possible vector of attack. This is the danger of sharing your phone number in the 21st century — it's not just a way to get in contact, it's a possible route to hacking your whole life via your smartphone.
Not that any of us would do something that stupid. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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