Change CAN be a good thing. There is a lot to love in dot net, but dang, you'd think MS would not be so helter skelter with their strategies. I used to get to go to some of his "executive briefings" and he would talk about things MS was planning . . . five years downstream. That tells me that have some pretty smart folks out there and they should have tested a lot of stuff long before it even go to us, and that would say maybe they should have decided some of this stuff didn't fit. Then again, I could be wrong. I'm not the smartest guy. I can get things done, but I have to spend a lot of time going over and over it, or so it seems. The frustration comes into play when you are just starting to get your head around stuff and they say, well, you can use winforms, but wpf is the wave of the future, until they hit you with another turn in the road.
I will say I have been very impressed with a little tool I've been playing with lately...PivotViewer! If you haven't seen it, check it out at http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/ John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:34 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] MVC Conf yesterdays sessions are now up On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/11/2011 11:01 AM, John Harvey wrote: >> I'd just like to see things jell and not have so much flux. As soon >> as you start getting comfortable with a new technology the "smart >> guys" decide oops, we have come up with a whole new way of doing >> this, and everybody starts drinking the new, new koolaid. Winforms, >> WPF, Silverlight, xml, json, etc, etc, etc. > > > Boy you said it, John. Sometimes it seems like change for the sake of > pure change (i.e., no good reason). Sure, there's several great > advances, but sometimes it just seems like a new paradigm to sell new > tools, books, etc., and it really doesn't make the business solution > that much better. Kinda reminds me of someone saying that Microsoft > is a MARKETING company first. --------------------- What do you think of say AJAX or jQuery? Purely presentation right? What good is that anyway? The people who put in the time to identify that a change is needed had a reason. Sometimes it is output is not worth the effort but people keep putting in the time to make things better. Why do the car companies keep changing the way a car model looks on the inside as well as exterior? Is it that their designers are finding a better way to do something? Or is it just to make a new commercial? I can say that the more the typical user is use to pretty interfaces that guide them, the harder you are going to have. You are missing the connection from the experience from the application. Application is transportation between here and there. Experience is getting into this car or that one. Home decoration as well as cooking are much in the same game. The more things change the more they stay the same. The application is always there, I need to eat or sit down and watch a movie. The experience is the difference. Learn to roll with the experience. Your customers will love the ride. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
