Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News

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Submitted by denis.gobo 4 months ago

Do you use twitter? If you don't you should, it is a great way to find out what is happening in the programming world. Here is a list of some well known programmers and their twitter URL. Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman, Dare Obasanjo, John Lam..

"Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack"

"This strategy of lock-in stretches well beyond file formats. It also creates lethal and viral (as in “transferable”) integration of the server side and the desktop side. As mentioned many times before, all of this is happening quietly. It’s happening quietly for a reason. You never yell when approaching a rabbit."

"Microsoft intends to use its ’special’ deals to spread and make vital the use of Silverlight and .NET. Novell is among the biggest contributors (if the only one) to semi-baked ports of technology that should not be adopted in the first place. Novell gives customers and prospective developers the wrong impression — the impression that Free software will be compatible with technologies that Microsoft controls. It turns Linux into ‘cheap Windows’ that is enslaved to a monopoly."

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/26/novell-lockin-support/

"Halloween Documents explained part 1 - de-commoditize protocols"

"The Halloween Documents are for those who haven't heard of them a series of confidential documents written by highly respected Microsoft employees for internal use."

"One such example is XAML and Silverlight which effectively tries to de-commoditize the markup languages we are using today on the web. The fact that the HTML have been a commodity product have been the very back-bone of the success of the internet as we know it today. If HTML is replaced by XAML or other proprietary technologies, the free world on the internet as we know it today will be the victim."

"Standardized protocols and languages are the best way to ensure commoditization of the very fabric of society. Use standard based software and protocols where possible. Say no to proprietary new and improved versions of existing standards. Use JavaScript instead of Silverlight, use HTML instead of XAML, choose tools that obeys to the standards as much as possible instead of those that tries to create "new and improved" versions. Choose Free Software where possible and least of all; do not fall for Embrace, Extend and Extinguish strategies."

http://ajaxwidgets.com/Blogs/thomas/halloween_documents_explained_.bb

- CyberPhoenix
- added 4 months ago
"Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack"

"This strategy of lock-in stretches well beyond file formats. It also creates lethal and viral (as in “transferable”) integration of the server side and the desktop side. As mentioned many times before, all of this is happening quietly. It’s happening quietly for a reason. You never yell when approaching a rabbit."

"Microsoft intends to use its ’special’ deals to spread and make vital the use of Silverlight and .NET. Novell is among the biggest contributors (if the only one) to semi-baked ports of technology that should not be adopted in the first place. Novell gives customers and prospective developers the wrong impression — the impression that Free software will be compatible with technologies that Microsoft controls. It turns Linux into ‘cheap Windows’ that is enslaved to a monopoly."

http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/26/novell-lockin-support/

"Halloween Documents explained part 1 - de-commoditize protocols"

"The Halloween Documents are for those who haven't heard of them a series of confidential documents written by highly respected Microsoft employees for internal use."

"One such example is XAML and Silverlight which effectively tries to de-commoditize the markup languages we are using today on the web. The fact that the HTML have been a commodity product have been the very back-bone of the success of the internet as we know it today. If HTML is replaced by XAML or other proprietary technologies, the free world on the internet as we know it today will be the victim."

"Standardized protocols and languages are the best way to ensure commoditization of the very fabric of society. Use standard based software and protocols where possible. Say no to proprietary new and improved versions of existing standards. Use JavaScript instead of Silverlight, use HTML instead of XAML, choose tools that obeys to the standards as much as possible instead of those that tries to create "new and improved" versions. Choose Free Software where possible and least of all; do not fall for Embrace, Extend and Extinguish strategies."

http://ajaxwidgets.com/Blogs/thomas/halloween_documents_explained_.bb
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- xlar54
- added 4 months ago
I hate twitter... very self indulgent. Blogs are bad enough (when they have no content), but who would possibly think anyone cares what they are doing at any particular moment in time?
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