Comments on: @BrandonWatson Is Listening http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/ Jack of All Trades, Master of Some Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:54:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kentasato http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/comment-page-1/#comment-611 kentasato Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:06:49 +0000 http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/#comment-611 Stronger side of developer use when Microsoft is working is perhaps .NET X twitter-Python. But it seems to me like Japanese corporate world has been developing the other alternative node to the Twitter products, i.e. DoCoMo and AU-Softbank Microsoft CE. Stronger side of developer use when Microsoft is working is perhaps .NET X twitter-Python. But it seems to me like Japanese corporate world has been developing the other alternative node to the Twitter products, i.e. DoCoMo and AU-Softbank Microsoft CE.

]]> By: kentasato http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/comment-page-1/#comment-520 kentasato Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:06:49 +0000 http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/#comment-520 Stronger side of developer use when Microsoft is working is perhaps .NET X twitter-Python. But it seems to me like Japanese corporate world has been developing the other alternative node to the Twitter products, i.e. DoCoMo and AU-Softbank Microsoft CE. Stronger side of developer use when Microsoft is working is perhaps .NET X twitter-Python. But it seems to me like Japanese corporate world has been developing the other alternative node to the Twitter products, i.e. DoCoMo and AU-Softbank Microsoft CE.

]]> By: Victor Costan http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/comment-page-1/#comment-505 Victor Costan Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:09:51 +0000 http://www.manyniches.com/developers/brandonwatson-is-listening/#comment-505 You should know that, even if somehow Visual Studio becomes the best IDE ever, and it supports Ruby on Rails, you still won't have developers migrating. The reason is gem (Ruby library) support. Most developers are happy to assume a POSIX environment -- think fork and pipes.<br><br>So, if you want to get any attention from RoR people, start with making Windows a suitable environment for developing. I ran Windows 4 years ago, then I switched to make my RoR-developing life easier. After switching, I stopped logging into Connect. Then I stopped reading up on new Visual Studio features/versions. About a year ago, I stopped caring whether my gems work on Windows.<br><br>Ideally: make Windows POSIX-compliant. At the very least: make it really easy for developers who don't care too much about Windows to test our gems on Windows. Maybe give out well-tuned VirtualBox VMs with Windows XP and the right parts of the Windows SDK installed so people can test their gems and release binary gems for Windows.<br><br>If you want to look ahead, instead of catching up... release a FuseFS port (probably different implementation, but with the same API), so Windows can run the cool distributed file-systems that are developed by systems research nowadays.<br><br>I know my answer isn't what you want. I don't think there's any miraculous way to turn the devs who are happy back into MS users. However, you can reduce the bleed by giving Windows-based devs less reasons to switch. You should know that, even if somehow Visual Studio becomes the best IDE ever, and it supports Ruby on Rails, you still won't have developers migrating. The reason is gem (Ruby library) support. Most developers are happy to assume a POSIX environment — think fork and pipes.

So, if you want to get any attention from RoR people, start with making Windows a suitable environment for developing. I ran Windows 4 years ago, then I switched to make my RoR-developing life easier. After switching, I stopped logging into Connect. Then I stopped reading up on new Visual Studio features/versions. About a year ago, I stopped caring whether my gems work on Windows.

Ideally: make Windows POSIX-compliant. At the very least: make it really easy for developers who don't care too much about Windows to test our gems on Windows. Maybe give out well-tuned VirtualBox VMs with Windows XP and the right parts of the Windows SDK installed so people can test their gems and release binary gems for Windows.

If you want to look ahead, instead of catching up… release a FuseFS port (probably different implementation, but with the same API), so Windows can run the cool distributed file-systems that are developed by systems research nowadays.

I know my answer isn't what you want. I don't think there's any miraculous way to turn the devs who are happy back into MS users. However, you can reduce the bleed by giving Windows-based devs less reasons to switch.

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