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Dare Obasanjo
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"I'm confused. What the heck is noteworthy about this? Isn't this just slightly more complex putting a Web front end on top of a "Hello World" app?" - Dare Obasanjo
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"Sorry to contradict your stereotype of MSFT employees. I'm at the stage in my career (6 years working at Microsoft) and my life (newly married with a baby on the way) where I'm not impressed by free lunches and unfocused usage of my precious time. Things I think about now include 1.) I have experience with the software development process that I'd like to share with other so they don't make the same mistakes I made. Microsoft has lots of formal mechanisms to support this including becoming a mentor (I've mentored interns) and a software management career path. 2.) I don't like fire drills because it means someone fucked up and it often means it eats into my personal time (evenings and/or weekends). As lame as it sounds, lots of the process at big companies like Microsoft is to reduce fire drills. How many XSS and XSRF security issues are reported for Google services on proggit versus MSN/Windows Live properties? 3.) Culture. Despite what you read on Slashdot, Microsoft has been..." - Dare Obasanjo
I started at Microsoft many years ago when it was 'the' place to work for a software developer. It was great. I still work here, because its still great. The fact that I now have a family, and Microsoft supports me in that, is a wonderful thing. I'm probably being too thin-skinned, but I always find it painful when my peers out in the world say and assume really nasty things about Microsoft, its people, and its products. - Bruce Williams
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Dave Megginson nailed it when he said that all sufficiently expressive serializations in JSON, or any format, starts looking like XML in the end. When you start adding node labels and attributes and type information to JSON the output looks suspiciously like XML, just with curly braces instead of angle brackets. The problem being that those constructs aren't standardized in JSON. Read: http://www.megginson.com/blogs... - DeWitt Clinton
That said, for scenarios in which node metadata is unnecessary, and there are some, then JSON is the serialization format of choice for communication with unknown clients. - DeWitt Clinton
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Sadly Gizmodo is blocked at work ... - LPH
I'd add to the list by saying that when Microsoft made Visual Studio Express Editions free to the general public, they opened the gates to a flood of developers. More devs= more innovation= better for everyone. - Roberto Bonini
Visual Studio Express is a great thing - as is the XNA platform. You can now have a full game and high performance graphics development toolkit for free that runs on PC's and Zune's for free and it is only $99 a year to develop for the Xbox360 which is an unheard of ability on a top shelf console. People complain about MS all the time - but they do a lot of really, really good stuff. - Soulhuntre
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