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If you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon. Write code for devs, not parsers.
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Most web developers, myself included, do the bulk of their development and debugging in a single web browser, whether Chrome, Firefox, Safari or IE. Using web standards is the best way to get more mileage for your site. Locking yourself into any vendor, will eventually code your site into a corner that will maroon you into incompatibility. Make the web for everyone.
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An esoteric language made up of only semicolons. You can't escape the semicolon monster! ;;;;;;;;;;;
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So, it has come to this
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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But it has got spaces.
Some people hate white space!
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Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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That's what I thought!
Attempting to load signature...
A NullSignatureException was unhandled.
Message: "No signature exists"
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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It seems like they created a new punctuation mark especially for this language - the "reversed semicolon". Innovation
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We have talked about Windows 8 as Windows reimagined, from the chipset to the user experience. This also applies to the editions available – we have worked to make it easier for customers to know what edition will work best for them when they purchase a new Windows 8 PC or upgrade their existing PC. It's just Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT.
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Equations have held remarkable power in facilitating humanity’s progress and, as such, call for rudimentary understanding as a form of our most basic literacy. E = mc what?
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Ethically sourced coffee is easy to find nowadays, but it is hard to feel good about where your smartphone comes from. The industry is beset by allegations of factory-worker abuse, of raw materials being sourced from conflict zones, and of generating mountains of electronic waste. Is there a smartphone you can feel good about buying? People are willing to pay more if they know a product is ethically sourced.
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Recently, we recommended Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome as the best business browsers. But for many companies, they both have a major problem: they're not Internet Explorer 6. Intranet applications that choke on newer browsers, but which work in Internet Explorer 6 or sometimes 7, are an unfortunate feature of many working environments, and regularly force companies to stick with software that's long past its prime but nonetheless mission critical. Which of these products is the best option for you?
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For most of my life, I’ve struggled to quantify what constitutes an enticing interface. There are certain basic aims from which you can take your pick - intuitiveness, attractiveness, clarity, simplicity, consistency, and more - but those are general guidelines. With the arrival of the iPad, however, I’ve noticed an increasingly-prevalent UX aesthetic that I think gets close to the natural role of these devices in our lives. Touch-based devices are empowering extensions to our real, actual lives - and that’s a profound thing.
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Programmers in demand get approached by people about new projects. Demanding an NDA upfront starts the relationship off on the wrong foot. [ITworld]
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What's your best career advice for new IT professionals? [ITworld]
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Do what you love. If you do, you will always be successful. I hate to see people go into a field just because of industry predictions that it will be a good field. Do what you love. Don't chase money.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Sheryl Sandberg says in a video interview that she thinks it would be great if tech workers didn't put in stupidly long hours at the office. But don't count on her triggering a Silicon Valley revolution. [ITworld]
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In spite of the fact that I’m a pretty high end .Net guy, I would caution new startups that are considering using .Net. I think .Net is awesome, and I use it for my own startup HireFlo. However there's one big landmine that could handicap your startup before it even gets going, webforms. You see, ASP.Net development is divided into 2 camps, and there are major architectural differences, and cultural differences between them. ASP.NET MVC versus WebForms, which would you choose?
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Yawn: another know-it-all tells us what we should and shouldn't be doing because he happens to like one methodology over another.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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I'm starting what could be called a business. Regardless of if it becomes profitable, I'm using it as an opportunity to learn ASP.net MVC, Umbraco 5, and Windows Azure.
I've found Windows Azure to be pretty nice so far. You aren't actually locked into Azure if you use it... your Azure project is different than your main web application project, and you can actually build the web app to run outside of Azure as well as in Azure (the book I read on Azure, the name of which I forget at the moment, demonstrates some of those techniques). In that sense, you are not locked into Azure.
As far as the Azure environment being difficult to replicate on a local box, it comes with compute and storage emulators, which I have tried and which seem to work fine. Debugging does not really seem different than outside of Azure.
In any event, since I'm using this as a learning exercise, I can afford to fail, so I can see why somebody who can't afford to fail would want to avoid Azure or any new technology.
And I'm thinking of getting a business license later this year, so Bizspark may be a real option for me. It's good to know the individual licenses extend beyond the initial 3 years
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AspDotNetDev wrote: I've found Windows Azure to be pretty nice so far
read the production pricing fine print and tell me what you think after that
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