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It’s one of those enduring Zen koans of science that we’ve all grown up with: Light behaves as both a particle and a wave—at the same time. Next up: that blasted cat
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Daniel Roth takes a deep look under the hood of the new ASP.NET 5 runtime and the flexible, layered architecture that allows it to run on the .NET Framework, .NET Core and even the cross-platform Mono framework. ASP.NET 5, printf with 'Modern C++", .NET Micro Framework, and all the rest of this month's MSDN Magazine.
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New information has leaked on Windows Server vNext, or what Microsoft seems to be calling "Nano Server." Forcing their grandmother to serve them. Such beasts! Oh wait. Nano, not Nana.
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Earlier today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I provided developers a first look at the Windows 10 developer platform strategy and universal app platform. I encourage you to tune in to our Build conference in April for the full story. "Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns, and calls me on and on across the universe"
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While I welcome Universal apps, I cannot endorse the centralized store model. Especially with MS limiting creative freedom (although they make an exception for games). So if I decide, for example, to create an interactive novel, I'd better make sure its acceptable for a readership of age 12. Or lie and call it a game.
I hope they open up to side loading from other sources. Without that, I will have vast misgivings. Creative freedom should only limited by the laws of the land, not the laws some corporation decides fit their image.
Ultimately, I blame Apple for this approach. Sadly, everyone seems to have swallowed it whole.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What's the answer to 99 of a hundred questions...?
Okay, money maybe doesn't count for all the apps you can download for free, but every serious application will have a price, they always did, that's how it works, and that's where the cut-off will kick in. And 30% is a lot for someone that basically just provides a deployment platform. To circumvent this, I think this will lead ultimately to a model where the actual application is available for free in the store, but you will need a separate paid account/subscription to unlock its functionality. Microsoft themselves is using this practice with Office on the iPad, for example.
And control, of course. A centralized store is perfect for that.
What I also dislike is the advertisements within essential Microsoft apps, like the Weather app, for example. I mean, they come pre-installed with Windows, they are kind of part of the operating system, so you technically already paid for them as well - so why put ads in there?
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: To circumvent this, I think this will lead ultimately to a model where the actual application is available for free in the store, but you will need a separate paid account/subscription to unlock its functionality. Microsoft themselves is using this practice with Office on the iPad, for example.
Only if MS is sleeping at the switch. If not, it'll be like Steam where for the privilege of hosting your Free to Play game they take the same cut of your MTX/P2W revenue as they would if you were selling your game through their store normally instead of gouging whales.
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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Hosted web apps are also coming to Microsoft's next operating system. Hold 'B' to enable bold, press jump to start a new paragraph
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Google plans to offer connectivity directly to mobile users in the U.S., but says it doesn't intend to become a full-service carrier. One company to provide everything for your Internet needs? What could possibly go wrong with that?
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When I first saw the title of this I thought, "A carrier? I didn't even know Google had a navy!" ...with battleships, etc.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Somewhere along the way, I think I lost sight of the forest for the trees. I was so actively trying to argue why DVCSes were so superior to the existing centralized source control systems that we had that I never really stopped that long to think about if maybe, just maybe, they in fact weren’t well suited to every single situation that involved source code. You have nothing to lose but your cool factor
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Are you just checking in a new version?
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Sorry, thought I unchecked the "publish to the insider forum" box when including it in the queue for tomorrow.
TTFN - Kent
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That vaguely creeped out feeling you get from Googling something for the first time and then seeing ads for it when you log on to Facebook two minutes later? It's soon going to follow you to your Android games. You'll never guess what tools they're adding. Dang, you guessed 'ads'? You're clever.
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I was so actively trying to argue why DVCSes were so superior to the existing centralized source control systems that we had that I never really stopped that long to think about if maybe, just maybe, they in fact weren’t well suited to every single situation that involved source code.
And as a result of the efforts of people like me, we’re now seeing some truly insane “best practices” in the name of adopting Git.5 And mind you, we insist they’re “best practices”; they’re not workarounds, oh no, they’re what you should have been doing since the beginning.
And that’s bullshit.
Today, I’m putting my foot down. I helped start this nonsense, so I’m going to help stop it. If a DVCS is great for your workflow, fine. If the trade-offs it imposes are good for you, great. But let’s stop claiming that they’re free, because they have a cost, and the cost is sometimes not worth it.
Because there hasn't been enough bomb tossing around here lately.
*dives into his bunker*
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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Never even been tempted to try one.
If something requires hype to attract interest; I'm not interested.
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In my workplace, given the deployment requirements and the organization of us developers, we use the best and most portable versioning tool: properly named zip and changelog.
Pros:
1) Easy to backup;
2) Always compatible, no new tools to install;
3) Soothes the ultra-conservative copy-only-delete-never approach of all the members of the staff (except the one who sometimes loses some file and has to rework from scratch);
4) Packs the data with the source code, may be useful when developing and deploying customized algorithms.
Cons:
1) Soothes the ultra-conservative copy-only-delete-never approach, leading to several WIP archives and cluttering of the hard-drives.
Geek code v 3.12
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--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I used to do that too, then I discovered source control when I started coding professionally and never looked back.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I was hired at a place years ago where their "source control" consisted of a networked directory and passing around popsicle sticks with filenames written on them. Whomever had the popsicle stick "owned" editing of that file. Of course, there was no history kept and errors did occurr. But, it mostly "worked". However, I was aghast. I quickly switched them to a SCR, which they didn't even know such a thing existed.  
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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There has been more than one company I've introduced to the wonders of source control.
I'm not trying to educate a manager that looking at the history can give him a great view into the work going on too. Haven't got through yet.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Madness!
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I take this does not mean District Vehicle and Computer Service.
tl;dr:
- DVCS won becasue they got merge+branch right
- many of us (a.k.a the author) rarely needs the distributed aspect
- no non-diffable or large binaries
- doesn't actually scale well for large repos
- Before pull requests, we had diffs
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While I accept that a reliable merge+branch is a good thing, over-reliance on it is a sign of a broken process; fix your process.
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note: content uses ShockWave Flash: [^].
"DOUG: I think the most difficult word from the list was “photobomb.” “Photobomb” was a bit of a challenge. I asked others in the community how they sign it, and we had all different versions, and so we'll see what the comments are. Some people agreed and disagreed, but this is the one I chose. You could also change it depending on whose POV you are presenting: am I taking the picture or am I the one in the picture doing the “photobomb?” So it brought about quite a hot discussion about which way to sign “photobomb.” Which of these words do you never use?"
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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cool - its only natural that sign language would evolve - I guess not just by geographic regions (AUSLAN is what's used in Australia, different from the American and similar to English sign languages) but as shown, in the interpretation by different age groups, possibly even more factors
- one of the funniest experiences I had was taking a group of hearing impaired kids diving - the 'rest of us' were just simple pointing at things - the hearing impaired kids were having full on conversations - they had a good laugh with us airside about the advantages of signing 
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