ChicagoDave

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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
This is funny. At one client, my team would yell, "The Architect!" in a very sarcastic manner to remind me I was just a developer with a few years on them. I agree, the title can be misused or offer an inflated sense of self for s
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I've always viewed software architecture the same way start-ups function. If you plan to build frameworks, guidelines, and processes, you should treat those things within your company as a new product or service. Your customers are all
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
If there's anything that still is a horrible UI on WP8 it's the email app. It's wretched folder interactions are useless. More than any other "base app", the email app needs updating. Of course the new email app MS
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I started Textfyre in 2007. At first I was just trying to build Interactive Fiction (text story games, also known as IF) games and sell them. Once I realized there was no captive audience for such things, I nearly quit. But then I noticed m
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
This is why Microsoft introduced their Signature series. If you purchase any hardware with that identifier, there is no OEM bloatware. I picked up an HP Stream for my daughter and I was shocked to see it really was _just_ Windows and nothin
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
In the start up world, what comes around, goes around. Ethics, trustworthiness, honesty...these are all important factors. All of the angels and VC's I've been around would very likely walk away from people like this. Maybe it was
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
Chicago has an awesome start-up community. Check out http://www.builtinchicago.org/ .
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
The one thing I've read (don't remember where) that makes sense to me is...is it possible that MS is trying to figure out a mobile Docker system to allow Android apps on Windows Phone? With multi-core CPU's on phones and more
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I ran an ed-tech firm for years (without success), so any kind of educational PR is difficult at best. I agree with homarp...Twitter is your best bet. Not to generalize, but a lot of the educational blogs are by moms and they're very p
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
Culture doesn't always help. It's a step in the right direction, but even in the best development environments, some developers just don't improve their understanding of complex code. So then the company solves the problem by
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
There are ways to talk about it that help developers understand. Instead of focusing on the pattern overall, talk about the core dependency manager as often as possible. If a junior or mid-level developer gets it pounded into their heads th
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I've been the elephant in the application architecture room for years. I was opposed to Dependency Injection for years for the primary reason of Complexity, Readability, and Teachability. As a consultant, I have the opportunity to trav
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
You say, "It's my assumption you have a range of pay you're willing to pay for this position. I'm very interested in working here so this isn't _all_ about the money, but I know what I'm worth and I'd like
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I had the exact same experience about 6 years ago...my second oldest daughter (I have four) wanted comic books. She'd found some cool ones about Mary Jane Watson that were probably young adult-ish in story, but the drawings were pretty
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
"Although templating is the correct solution, doing it in the browser is fundamentally wrong." This statement alone sounds like someone doesn't want to learn new things. I'm sorry, but I wrote ASP.NET webforms for years
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
My experience with Amazon's "rules" are that they tend to be so heavily automated that their support staff couldn't change anything if they wanted to. So my suggestion to Mr. Reynolds is to strip the hyphens and move on.
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I started coding in the 80's and many people would deride my expertise in BASIC, whether it was on an IBM PC or on a DEC PDP-11 or DEC VAX. If you weren't coding in C and later C++, you just weren't a "real" program
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I was less commenting on PC vs MAC and more that Visual Studio is not used by web developers who use Sublime and WebStorm and other text editors. I believe you'll see VS move closer to those usage scenarios over time and have less of t
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I've been a developer for over 30 years and there's _always_ churn. You will _always_ have to learn new things. That's just the way it is. Some things are truly better (C#) and some things are not (Flash). It often takes time
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
I smell someone trying to make money off of seminars and corporate "re-education". There's no doubt that many of our corporate overlords need re-education on agile software development, but this is not the way to do it. They
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by ChicagoDave 12y ago
After looking at the doc, my first reaction is that all HTML should be schema compliant. Using non-standard HTML in the constructs will screw up a lot of tooling and validation. It's also safe to say this is just too big of a change wi