Sweet Lord he is dead on!
…it’s time for Microsoft to stop lowering the bar for developers. It’s time to stop going out on the road and saying you’ve got a presentation for software architects and then spend 2 hours describing features to your most expensive technologies. We’re architects. Price of admission should be: not an idiot or not person who doesn’t know what this thing the “internet” is. Look, I’ve had an assload of your f-ing terrible presentations and demos. Show me something, anything at all worth looking at and maybe I’ll be able to not hang my head in shame every time the term Microsoft comes up.
I hung me head in shame only a few times yesterday at Ohio Linux Fest. That is mostly because every time I said I was a .NET Developer I could at least say that I try to stay on top of Mono and run at least some of the things I write in Mono. Luckily, there weren’t too many developers at OLF. When the Ruby guy, Luke, author of Puppet, asked me “Why would anyone develop in Mono?” I was able to say “why wouldn’t you?” And of course it is easy to site the low memory space usage of a GTK application in Mono vs. Python GTK or Ruby GTK.