The Importance of the ALT.NET Movement
Or: Why Should I Care?
I know some of you are probably saying to yourselves, “what is the ALT.NET movement”? In short, the movement is a growing community of .NET developers who are frustrated with the tooling and guidance provided by Microsoft, as well as the closed, insular nature of the .NET development community. The movement is aimed at educating the .NET community and showing that there are proven alternatives to “the Microsoft way” in terms of software architectures and that there are mature, viable alternatives to the development tools produced by Microsoft. So why is this important?
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Becoming a Better Programmer (An Introduction)
Hi, I’m Scott. I have been developing software professionally for the past ten years. I’ve learned a lot during that time, but when I began working in .NET about two years ago, I quickly realized that I had a lot of learning to do. I had been working mostly in ColdFusion and PHP for the previous three or four years, and had focused on old school ASP before that. Sure, a lot of my knowledge and experience was relevant. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript hadn’t changed much. SQL Server and Oracle hadn’t either. But as an application developer, the focus is that middle area—the application—and after working in (predominantly) procedural languages for eight years, the sudden shift to an object-oriented platform was slightly overwhelming. In my mind, I had three options: give up and go back to a procedural language, try to bend the platform to my procedural mindset, or adopt an object-oriented mindset and become a better programmer. Read on…
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