The Cydonian's Journal: F/OSS versus MS: The View From the Frontlines.

So we're a mostly MS-only shop [*] out here with all of our current projects being developed on VisualStudio.net and coded in C#. In fact, we're one of MS' preferred partners in the region; they run to us whenever they want neat lil demos to demonstrate the power of .net to n00b Comp Sc undergraduates. In short, we're the "developers" in "Developers, developers, developers" chant that all of us so love.

Any guesses on what we now insist on using to maintain our CVS? :-) This, after two weeks of absolute chaos using the best MS solution the client could think of. :-|

(For the record, I absolutely love Eclipse, and was even working on a patch I thought would be useful for cross-team collaboration. Unfortunately, I can't quite work on that project on company time for legal reasons, and the shift key on my home laptop has been stuck for the last two weeks. More on that later)

[*] - Apparently, we'll be moving over to J2EE projects as well, now that we have my, ah, expertise, on board.

Hahaha

[metlin]

I just found that *absolutely* hilarious! :)

But I should say that my initial skepticism on J2EE to be superior to the .NET architecture, and the Microsoft Webservices mantra in general, is fading away.

And you know what, if MS actually puts in a good amount of work and effort, it can come upto something good. But for the platform issues ;)

But then I have no lost love for MS, nor for Sun. To be honest, I find Java's syntaxes to be absolutely painful. And finding an obscure library or whatever is more work

Re:Hahaha

[The Cydonian]

Assembly language is, obviously, like doing construction work using toothpick as a tool.

l33t hackers stay away from these jihads and instead code in the One True Way [songworm.com] to mukti.