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Heh, thanks Pete. Yes, it has been quit a while.
CodeProject thinks it was 1999 when I was last on, but my message history says it hasn't been quite that long. 
Pete
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Pass the word around the office, Pete - a bigger Microsoft dev (or even evangelist) presence on CodeProject would, I think, not be unwelcome.
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Thanks Mick
I'm in Windows now, no longer in evangelism. In DX/DPE, most of the evangelists are doing Azure these days. I would need to look back around here to see if that's a fit.
I feel like there used to be many communities we were all involved with but have since lost touch with. I'm active in some music communities, but not so much in places like Code Project these days.
Pete
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The ambiguity and variance of the architect role, combined with the fact that architect is nominally ‘above’ developers, creates a breeding ground for interpersonal friction. Bonus #0: Isn't it obvious that they other guy is an idiot?
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I'd say #0 is, which they do touch on, "Nobody knows what an architect is, even the architects."
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architect: a person who looks at the inside of their foot and, with a detectiving voice, proclaims, "Yep, that's an arch...."
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My 5 reasons:
- Developer has a few silly GitHub projects under his belt and thinks he now knows how to develop an app.
- Developer wants to feed his ego and prove himself by doing it his way.
- Developer wants to use the latest newfangled language/framework for no other reason than "it must be better."
- Developer embraces Agile and starts coding right away with no consideration of the long term issues such as code maintenance, documentation, design, etc.
- Developer knows tool X and language Y and that's what he'll be using. End of discussion.
Such has been my experience. 
Marc
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Scene: Two developer arguing vehemently in hallway about algorithm.
Manager: Well, it's code... who can really say. It's all the same just mixed around a bit, right?
First Developer (pauses arugment): "Yes, you are right. So, we'll use Fred's code..."
Second Developer (Fred): Smiling....
First Developer : Uh, you're on call when your W#$%&*! hits the fan -- erm... your code goes into production.
Who can really say? 
Edit This little dramatization has been in support of your list of items.
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article wrote: nominally
If s/he were SERIOUSLY / EXTREMELY / ABSOLUTELY above developers then there'd be no argument.
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Allo, the standalone messaging app that Google announced back in May, is now available to the masses — and probably smarter than any messaging app you’ve ever used. Just in case you were looking for a messaging app. They're pretty rare.
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I want a counter bot messaging app. It will do nothing extra when a human written message comes in. But when it detects a sunshine is trying to use a bot to fake interacting with me, it'll send a reply using its own bot. It will then put the original offending message and its reply into my trash folder so I never see either of them.
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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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to “unlock human potential and promote equality,” today announced “Chan Zuckerberg Science,” a $3 billion project that aims to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our children’s lifetime.” Yeah, that should just about cover the cost
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Oh, I thought it was $3 is what they're giving each diseased kid, all billion of them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a company created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to “unlock human potential and promote equality,” today announced “Chan Zuckerberg Science,” a $3 billion project that aims to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our children’s lifetime.” dodge taxes Yeah, that should just about cover the cost
FTFY 
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A Cisco bug report addressing “partial data traffic loss” on the company’s ASR 9000 Series routers contends that a “possible trigger is cosmic radiation causing SEU soft errors.” I now have an explanation for all future bugs
It definitely beats, "My dog ate my data"
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Reminds me of Don Lemon on CNN postulating whether black holes were responsible for that Malaysian plane.
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"Could be network issues due to cosmic radiation" sure beats troubleshooting your servers. This is irresponsible to post on a forum with server admins.
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The competitor to Salesforce Lightning lets citizen developers create apps out of pre-built components Just so you know what you'll need to replace/fix next quarter
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"Visual Code" - gosh, there's an original name.
However, darn it, I was so lookin' forward to having my eyes closed while I code.
You know, just like these Jr. developers we recently hired seem to be doing.
Come to think of it, the developers before me seem to have coded the same way.
Glad this faulty DNA missed my generation of coders. 
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Apple, the tech company, is negotiating with McLaren, the car manufacturer, according to the Financial Times. Shiny? check. Impractical? check. Expensive? check and double check. It's a perfect fit.
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TLDR, but why would the amazing McLaren company want to acquire a losing proposition such as Apple?
[update] OK, finally read it and saw this update: Quote: McLaren: "We can confirm McLaren is not in discussion with Apple in respect of any potential investment"
So McLaren have obviously come to their senses and decided not to buy Apple after all!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lol... I thought it was the way around, apple trying to buy McClaren
In which case, you message would have been...
"so McClaren have obviously been damm lucky scaping from the acquisition by Apple"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nokia Bell Labs says it has achieved terabit fibre internet speeds in ‘real world conditions’. It's only 'real world conditions' if it's hooked up to my house. Try again.
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