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Well, Eminem, in his song said:
Quote: F***in' Internet bloggers: "I sit in front of my computer all day and comment on
Everything, I'm an expert on everything, everything sucks, play the next song"
You're right, everyone today thinks they can start a new Microsoft and create a new Windows and .NET Framework. I, can code, can develop softwares, but I won't, since I can get a more efficient code using an already developed Framewodk and library.
Business companies might be correct, while getting their software built for themself and secure, but most of the softwares are built keeping the security in mind so, using them and editing them out to fit their needs would be a better bid. I totally agree, people are pessimists right now!
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It's been almost two years since Microsoft made Windows 8 available for the world, but now, two major updates on and we’ve still not seen any hint of the company bringing its Office suite into the future. Because people really want to select text with their fingers?
Actually, looking at some people's screens, it looks like they're already doing that.
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Who wants to select text with their fingers? Atleast I don't!
Furthermore, to make your opinion clear I would like to add, "Everyone likes to grab angry bird and throw it at the pigs with their finger".
This would be a good way of expressing your feelings to touch the machine process. Also, Microsoft has moved on to a much costly version of Office, the 360. Where you don't buy the Office Suite, who subscribe. You have to pay again after every month, pretty good thing for business but bad for the customers.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Actually, looking at some people's screens, it looks like they're already doing that. Yeah, such touch screens have existed since decades... though they were not at all touch-sensitive.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because people really want to select text with their fingers?
"Select text" could be condensed.
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Quote: Office is only good with a mouse and keyboard and offers a poor experience with anything else. ...erm, I find a keyboard fairly essential when typing! I NEVER touch my screen when typing; my fingers just aren't long enough, sorry!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Today many IT executives choose open source over proprietary software for everything from cloud computing to facilitating teamwork among remote workers. It's not a cancer?
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No, you're supposed to say, "It's not a tooma"
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These were myths maybe 5 years ago...Why write about it today?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Because Chris is determined that Kent publish 10 articles/day in the insider even if there aren't that many non-drek articles published in the last 24 hours.
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: many IT executives
That's the thing that just drives me nuts about news. OK, so 90% of people surveyed think that the moon is made of cheese. Does that make them right? Of course not!
I couldn't care LESS what "many IT executives choose." I will choose what is appropriate for my budget and my goals.
Marc
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Time and again, I run into developers who's feeling towards SQL ranges from slight discomfort to shear terror. It's all that SELECTing and JOINing: it reminds us of being picked last for team sports at school
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Shear terror?
/ravi
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Time and again, I run into developers who'''s feeling towards SQL ranges from slight discomfort to shear terror
SQL injection - the most terrifying injection of my adult life
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Of course, it wouldn't be a problem if the author had used the correct word!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Why are developers so afraid of SQL?
I am afraid of it because it's a three letter acronym and I have a fear of all TLAs.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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Never knew developers are afraid of SQL - sounds me all wrong. In my schedule at college SQL was there every week...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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To me the author of this text simply doesn't understand why people don't like SQL.
He even talks about ORMs, but he missed the point entirely. Many developers don't have a problem with SQL. They don't have a problem with the programming language either. Their problem is the mismatch between SQL and the language they need to use and the amount of duplicated code.
Without an ORM, the developer is going to write the SQL, then either use a DataTable (pretty bad) or a DataReader. If the developer uses a data-reader to populate an object (I worked in many places that do this), the developer needs to write the sql + write the code that reads every database field to populate an object. Also, any error when writing the field names will only be found while executing the code. In this sense, it is natural to avoid writing one of them if you can.
And honestly, joins are stupid too. Most joins are based on foreign key fields, and there's only one possible join from one table to the other, yet developers must repeat all the fields in the "ON" clause. It would be much nicer if SQL allowed us to say "INNER JOIN otherTable" without having to specify the joining fields all the time, reserving it for exceptional cases.
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Paulo Zemek wrote: Without an ORM, the developer is going to write the SQL,
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Paulo Zemek wrote: yet developers must repeat all the fields in the "ON" clause. It would be much nicer if SQL allowed us to say "INNER JOIN otherTable"
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Ugh. Anyone that is still writing SQL directly in their code should be shot. I'm definitely not an advocate of ORM's, but it doesn't take very much effort to put together a decent enough SQL generator that covers 90% or more of the use cases, based simply on the schema. Oh wait, I forgot. A lot of the databases I've seen don't actually have usable schemas defining FK relationships, unique keys, even primary keys that are non-data fields.
Marc
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We use a lot of SQL - of course, but there is no a single line of it in the code. When I want some data I load an entity (not of .NET but using a 2 decade old idea of our own) identifying it by it's name and passing it some parameters. The entity itself was created by a home-made ORM like tool and saved in the database itself...No SQL whatsoever in code!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Being afraid of SQL is a strange exaggeration in my opinion. The only wierd SQL stuff is all the inner and outer etc. joins. They are hard to understand. I feel better working with smaller blocks of code one selection at a time and the narrowing in of the data set. Linq helps us doing that. And after all developers loves Linq mostly.
Michael Pauli
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Quote: A lot of the databases I've seen don't actually have usable schemas There. You said all that needs to be said.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I do like SQL - There is always very less to do with SQL. The worse part is dealing with ORM and the data access layer.
In SQL on the thing I am scared of is Joins.
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Fear of SQL is a sign of weakness.
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