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El Maliko - aka Sahil just posted details of Infusion's Sleepless in NY Contest . Not only do you get training from some development rock stars, travel and expenses are covered too.
A Sharepoint and Silverlight extravaganza? Dude who replaced my friend Bill with this guy who likes lightweight faggoty development ***? Whoever you are I'm going to kick your ass until you tell me what you did with Bill.
Sharepoint and Silverlight are faggoty?
Allow me to clarify. First I do not use the word faggoty in regards to anything involving the gay community. I use it simply as an adjective synonymous with other adjectives like lame, weak, and useless. It could also be thought of as encompassing the same thoughts that are invoked by the phrase, "Worthless MSFT technology flavor of the week used to churn developers and users alike". Here are some examples to help clarify my personal position on the matter:
In depth code to control float point behavior == not faggoty
Computational Geometry Algorithms coding == not faggoty
Coding 3d rendering engines == not faggoty
Embedded systems Assembler and C coding == not faggoty
Device Driver coding == not faggoty
Firmware coding for networking components (routers etc) == not faggoty
Writing video or graphics display systems IE (writing your own Real Player from scratch) == not faggoty
Writing a new CAD or GIS system IE (you wrote FastCAD in pure Assembler *see note) == not faggoty
Working on the Windows Shell team == not faggoty
Just about anything Larry Osterman has done professionally == not faggoty
Working on the core libraries for any major CAD or GIS system == not faggoty
Coding precision measurement systems for things like super conductors == not faggoty
Coding the firmware and system software for diagnostic equipment like MRI's == not faggoty
Coding Flir style thermal imaging systems or lidar systems == not faggoty
Coding stability control systems for vehicles == not faggoty
Coding systems that control, calculate, and connect fiber optic systems == not faggoty
Coding systems that control, calculate, and connect RF and or microwave systems == not faggoty
Examples on the opposite end of the spectrum:
Coding bank customer UI software == faggoty
Coding hospital patient tracking software == faggoty
Just about anything involving coding business logic in .Net == faggoty
Coding against MSFT Access databases == faggoty
Using MSFT flavor of the week, developer churning, wrappers on the same core libraries == faggoty
MSFT VC++ pre visual studio 2005 == faggoty
writing just about anything in Java other than J2ME code == faggoty
Linux zealots == faggoty
Mac users trying to justify their beloved Mac's fuzzy fonts == faggoty
Almost all web development (although there are some notable exceptions) == faggoty
Google and Yahoo aiding the Chinese government in much the same way IBM did the Germans during WWII == faggoty
MSFT MapPoint == faggoty
The lists of course could go on for days but I will stop there for the sake of brevity. I have this friend name Bill who was right on the cusp of doing some really cool stuff with the Windows CE framework and other cool things as well and suddenly he was kidnapped and replaced by a guy who does Asp.Net code and talks about things involving MSFT flavor of the week business logic technology. I want to know what they did with the old Bill and if he is still blogging from solitary confinement or if the terrorists really have won.
*Note if the creator of FastCAD **( Mike Riddle ) ever reads this, your code is cool but your UI needs a lot of work. Mad props for doing the first seven version or so all in pure Assembler.
**Mike Riddle was the original architect of AutoCAD for the then garage based AutoDesk corporation owned by John Walker. You can find some mention of him here in the History of how AutoDesk had pains bringing AutoCAD onto the 8086 architecture: www.fourmilab.ch/.../section2_10_8.html