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True,

if you are a Dinosaur coder then you will go the way of the Dinosaur  (which if I recall correctly wasn't good)

Denis

Good comments.

I think that this is where the Java community really outshines the .NET one.

Take for instance - Hibernate.  How many .NET developers even know what NHibernate is?

Microsoft bugs me in that they don't promote these tools.  ie. NUnit, NHibernate, etc... they instead just go out and try to reinvent the same wheel, with MS speak.

Every since they recreated what NUnit does I've quested Microsoft.  Is it because they fear lawsuits?  

But, back to topic: Jim Holmes and Jim Avery wrote a book 'Windows Developer Power Tools' and it covers alot of tools like Rhino.Mocks, etc... - it's a good read, really shows all the great development efforts going on in the .NET community outside of Redmond

Jeremey, your "AMEN" quotient is quite high as well, brother.

I wrote on a similar topic in February 200, "Better Developers Through Diversity" http://haacked.com/archive/2006/02/16/BetterDevelopersThroughDiversity.aspx

Borrowing from Fatboy Slim (who borrowed it from others of course). ;)

Seth Godin actually touches upon this as well today: "Thrill Seekers".

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/thrill_seekers.html

The .NET community needs to become a community of Thrill Seekers! Geronimooooo!

That was one of the great things about CodeMash (http://www.codemash.org) earlier this year in Ohio, everyone getting together to learn :)

I'd say that 90% of the developers I've worked with in the past end their profession at 5pm each day. It's quite frustrating actually, and it seems that the only time they learn new stuff is when mgmt crams it down their throats. We are the minority it would seem, which is unfortunate.

@Steve: you're right on.

We get a little dumber every time MS lauches their N*.* replacement, weakening the struggling community, and keeping the majority of .Net shops in the habit of always waiting for MS-badged components.

Jeremy you are spot on. The pragmatic guys made a similar assertion in their 'Pragmatic Programmer' that developers needed to spend 4-5 hours a week on coding and learn a new language a year. It should be a commitment we all make.

You can look to other techs to see how they are pushing the fold but so too is our own field. OSS in the .NET world has created some of its own new areas.  More to less OSS is largely upaid work that is done after 5 and just about every moment of your spare time (weekends and all). You have to seriously love coding to commit like this but you get the freedom away from any day job pressures to explore your own concepts and create your own new ideas.

.NET in the testing field is breaking new ground on our Java or Ruby brothers, both in the OSS space and within MSR.

I tend to be a glass half-full kinda guy and usually get excited about any progress, but the more I use OSS Tools the more I realize new features in various Microsoft offerings are not so new and can often be less feature-rich than existing OSS or 3rd Party Tools.

I think getting out of our comfort zone and using unfamiliar tools and languages is one of the best ways to learn. The insights you gain will often help you better understand the tools and components you have been using for years.

No chance in hell of this happening. MS is too afraid of patent infringement to look at other tech.

The FUD that is spun by MS-Marketing and all their minions is that OSS is evil and wants to keep you from making money by giving away your product for free. That's the party line, that's what keeps people firmly in the MS camp. "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft". Besides, all that OSS crap is just made by hobby programmers right? It's not stable.

Those are the arguments I've heard in the past few years.

This is a bogus, kind of narssistic post ... You feel others don't know whats going on in the rest of the world but its just not true, sorry ... you are not the only one, everybody is learning and growing.

MS seems to look at the .Net OSS and community as a test lab, which is a reasonable way to approach it.  Look at what Guthrie and crew are thinking about MVC.  Monorail is so popular, let's build it in.

This approach gets the highest value ideas vetted for MS without having to do the R&D in house in many cases.  Let's face it, not only is this a legitimate business practice, but it isn't a half bad idea for learning what the community really wants.

david true, look at apple.... they are a perfect example, both good and bad... looking at what 3rd party users are using and integrating...

I'm all for ms integrating oss technologies / concepts in... the good and bad that has come w/ the open source movement in java is how much there is out there, the bad is how much you need to spread yourself thin to integrate all the pieces toplay all nicey nice...

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