At MIX09, i got an opportunity to really sit down with a number of the folks in the ALT.NET community, most notably Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg of Bluespire Consulting. They walked me through a few scenarios and showed me some code and how they do things.
It all is started to making sense. i have been quietly plugging/pushing ALT.NET methodologies/tools over the last 2 weeks at work… The final straw happened yesterday where i was espousing refactoring our current architecture to a new architecture using SOLID principles and BDD to help us get there when a blog entry from this very site was used against my arguments. After a careful re-read I decided that something had to be done about the content. The ideas herein are dangerous (especially in my own blog), and could mislead a young programmer away from certain forms of architecture that are absolutely essential. Since i control TRT, i’ll be shutting it down in the next week (i’ll give everyone over here a chance to relocate). As for me, i’ll possibly go back to CodeBetter.com since i am now a much better match for them (and i still have an account over there i think… will have to ask Brendan if it’s ok) if not i have friends at Los Techies, so i’m sure i’ll find a blog home for my new improved ALT.NET blog).
[Wow, I managed to fool both Dana and Dave… No worries, TRT crew.. we’re still here (and will continue to be who we are); this was all just a joke…]
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