Comments on Richard Banks - Agile and .NET: True Community is What YOU Make it

Have to say I didn't think Roy's post was ...

2011-07-06T20:40:31.337+10:00

Have to say I didn't think Roy's post was bad either. A community centred around a technology developed by a large corporation is bound to be different to one that is more community based. Many development shops wouldn't touch anything not developed by Microsoft with a big stick. That kind of conservativeness is bound to reflect itself onto the community.

I didn't think Roy's post was that bad - h...

2011-07-06T06:40:09.436+10:00

I didn't think Roy's post was that bad - he made several good points.

But this post is about community.

Working as I do in my day job primarily with C#/.NET and a bit of Ruby I consume content from the .NET community (and provide it when I can). When I program for enjoyment and personal use I mostly use Ruby and I consume content from the Ruby [on Rails] community. I value both communities highly.

There is a problem in the .NET community in that so many members of the community burn bridges and write "Yet Another Leaving .NET Post" - I mean look at the term created to explain just that! There is a dearth of people who are excited to leave Ruby [on Rails] and hop back into [or join] .NET land. (Though there is evidence out there, I have read it - once.)

Something needs to happen in the .NET community to bring developers back or failing that at least keep them happy enough to _not_ burn bridges. My money would've been on IronRuby and I would've lost that money.

Sounds familiar : http://osherove.com/blog/2009/3/...

2011-07-05T20:37:33.964+10:00

Sounds familiar :
http://osherove.com/blog/2009/3/1/what-are-you-going-to-do-about-it.html

"MS don’t deserve .NET developers who want to...

2011-07-05T17:18:44.399+10:00

"MS don’t deserve .NET developers who want to get better, because MS aims at developers who *don’t* want to get better. just developers who want to *stay where they are and have a job until they die*."

Never read such ridiculous nonsense in my life. Anyone who can look at, for instance, the content coming out of MIX11, and say that MS aims at developers who don't want to get better is simply being intellectually dishonest.

The Ruby community may be vibrant and forward-thinking and all that - although I've never met a Ruby enthusiast that I would *want* to be in the same community as, and Roy's post confirms that feeling. But it's ironic to accuse Microsoft of being behind the times, in a blog post which clearly shows that the author is still living in the 90's in his perceptions of Microsoft's activities.