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By Mike Gunderloy
Thursday, March 11, 2004And back to the shorter form today; gotta take the boy to preschool in a few minutes. But first, a few links..
Information
- Coder to Developer - I've opened a Web site just for my next book, which will be out in a few weeks. There isn't much there yet, though you can read some of the cover copy and check out the table of contents. Oh, and of course there are links to pre-order your copy.
- Conversation with Novell's Stone - My boss at ADT Magazine chats about the future of Novell. Some interesting hints here.
- Scalable Development presentations - PowerPoints on ADO.NET, Yukon, Threading, and other topics.
Community
- Frameworks, Good Code, and the Opposite of YAGNI - Charles Miller introduces IKIFNI.
Rants
- Yukon and Whidbey: A Marriage Not Worth Fixing - Frans Bouma argues for decoupling Yukon and Whidbey development, and releasing Whidbey faster. Sounds nice, but there are some real-world problems. If you take the entire VB .NET team and throw them to removing the Yukon dependencies (which means, at a minimum, going through the entire bug database and deciding which things to postpone, dropping the features that are Yukon-specific in Whidbey, making sure all the other data access still works, etc etc), then Yukon slips even further - because the Yukon folks will still need a version of the Whidbey shell that works with their server. And the database people have been waiting for a new version much longer than the development people; Yukon was originally slated for 2003 release. If you don't decouple the two, so you don't slip the Yukon schedule, then you have to find an entire new development team so you can do two VS versions in paralel. Not gonna happen. And decoupling leads to even more versionitis problems in the future, with different development environments and different CLRs to mix and match. Disappointed (though not surprised) as I am by the slip, I prefer it to the alternative.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.