Grand Theft Auto receives acclaim Grand Theft Auto IV receives
April 29, 2008 – 1:00 amGrand Theft Auto receives acclaim
Grand Theft Auto IV receives a string of near-perfect review scores ahead of its release on Tuesday….
Colin Harman MACITP
Functional duplication; or WTF is the point of Mesh?
So we have FolderShare, we have Office Live Workspace, we have SkyDrive and we have MSN Sharing Folders. We have Windows Home Server offering RDP and classic remote desktop if you have a routable IP address. We have CardSpace and LiveID. We have Vista s Sync Center. We have Vista Photo Gallery and M…
Barry Dorrans
It has been over a month since my last update. I just want to put to rest any rumors of TestDriven.Net’s early demise. With the help of my lawyers, I responded to Microsoft’s lawyers‘ letter and am now attempting to come to a resolution of the issues. Continuing to play this out on the blogosphere would unnecessarily antagonize the situation and undo the good progress which has been made.
To be clear I am not anti-Microsoft. I am simply a passionate advocate of unit testing for developers of all experience levels. To my mind test driven development is like climbing with ropes. Beginner climbers can gain the confidence to climb without the fear of landing in a mess at the bottom. Expert climbers can take on overhangs and other hard problems that they wouldn’t otherwise have the confidence to try. Climb without ropes if you like, but I am certainly not going to encourage it for anything outside your comfort zone.
To end on a happy note the Wells for Zo charity that many of you supported last year through the .NET Developer’s Charity Auction is about to enter a new phase. You can read about the pump workshop which is being set up in Mzuzu, Malawi later this year. There is also a photo blog which is being updated by our guy in the field (when the Internet works). Perhaps the people who suggested I put up a PayPal button to help with legal fees would prefer to save their money for something worthwhile and make a donation here instead. :-)
A Thousand Paid Developers Please
There is an old saying that goes something like this: If you put 1,000 monkeys in a room with 1,000 typewriters (the things people used before computers), they would come up with the works of Shakespeare. Could the same be true of a great Desktop OS? No, but give me 1,000 well-paid developers and I’ll give you a great Desktop OS. My first two posts were responses to news articles concerning the fate of Desktop Linux. I think that Linux is ready for the Desktop in spite of the opinions of Novell and RedHat. Unfortunately, corporations want guarantees, support, and compatibility for their…
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