Dotnetrocks has a pretty low real content density compared to other podcasts, which is a shame. They do excel at audio quality, I wish there were more podcasts with this level of quality. There are good podcasts out there though. I also listen to podcasts at double speed which improves the content signal to noise ratio.
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of David Connors Sent: Fri 12/02/2010 11:13 AM To: ausDotNet Subject: Re: OT - wondering; c# direction That podcast robbed me of thirty minutes of my life (I couldn't handle the entire 60 minutes) and reaffirmed my belief in podcasts. I thought I might be in trouble when the cheesy music started with a voice over "Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nooww... the man who went to the drug store to get his wife a box of eye pads .... caaaarrrrrrrrrrrllll franklin". I'm sure that was amusing/made sense to someone. On 12 February 2010 08:42, Jonathan Parker <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe it's time for an entire overhaul of .NET and the CLR? Why? This is a very interesting podcast where Juval Lowy tries to explain why every class (including .NET classes) "should" be WCF services. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=520 Just because you can, does not mean you should. The guy was on the show to peddle/plug his book on WCF so his conclusion was perhaps fairly unsurprising. His argument is based on a false dichotomy that developers spend all their time doing a) worthless plumbing or b) value added business logic that managers like. From that he said something along the lines of "WCF implements every conceivable piece of plumbing". Also, apparently, developers are not experts in synchronisation and other basic fundamentals of computing science (NFI why I went to unit for three years then). Sorry to sound so harsh but this guy just sounds like yet another blogger dude with a barrow to push promising a silver bullet for all our woes. Maybe he can team up with the dynamic language crowd and merge WCF with ruby, javascript and rails and then we can all write expressive code while singing kumbaya and never have to write anything except value added business logic. I am getting so tired of people offering silver bullets for all our woes by some idiot with a blog doing crazy man hand waiving that "YOU'RE DOING IT ALL WRONG" and we need to throw out everything and go back to re-education camp to learn the new thing that is going to fix everything. [ ... ] David. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:58 AM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: On 11 February 2010 18:19, silky <[email protected]> wrote: I wonder if I am alone, out here, in thinking that C# is (possibly) going in a strange and bad direction. We can notice that it is tending to more of a dynamic/scripting-like language, with less compile-time checks (or worded another way, more freedom) with features that you could argue are "generally" harmful, and only "sometimes" useful (Extension Methods being the primary example, anonymous classes being another). I've not looked closely enough at the dynamic features in C# 4 to comment, but .NET has strong fundamentals and I appreciate Nick Wienholt's comments re Hejlsberg. He has produced environments with incredible pedigree in both his Borland and Microsoft days - I think he is a genius and a true asset to MS more so than most other people who are held up as MS 'rockstars'. I just hope MS are not spooked into doing something completely insane with .NET on the basis of the apparent popularity of dynamic languages in the freetard community. From following the dynamic crowd for the past year and a half or so, I have concluded that it is a religious movement; at least that is the only reason I can figure out why anyone would endure a Steve Yegge talk or blog post. The same people probably believe Erlang propaganda. Their bossman needs to give them more work to do so they can stop trying to figure out how to invent 1995. -- David Connors ([email protected]) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com <http://www.codify.com/> Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact -- David Connors ([email protected]) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com <http://www.codify.com/> Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
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