Comments on: Response from the Dark Side http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/ Random developer notes Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:01:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stickman http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-923 Stickman Mon, 07 May 2007 09:54:00 +0000 http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/#comment-923 While it's not quite as polished as Visual Studio, the open source project <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/" rel="nofollow">SharpDevelop</a> is nonetheless extremely impressive. I tend to use VS for coding (I find it slightly better for debugging) but SD is handy for the breadth of its addins -- e.g. FXCop integration, SVN support -- especially if, like me, you only have access to VS Express (which doesn't support VS AddIns). While it’s not quite as polished as Visual Studio, the open source project SharpDevelop is nonetheless extremely impressive. I tend to use VS for coding (I find it slightly better for debugging) but SD is handy for the breadth of its addins — e.g. FXCop integration, SVN support — especially if, like me, you only have access to VS Express (which doesn’t support VS AddIns).

]]> By: Peter Rust http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Peter Rust Fri, 04 May 2007 15:59:52 +0000 http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/#comment-924 Stickman, Great to see you expanding your toolbox and learning some of the MS tools. In college and at my first three programming jobs, I've primarily been exposed to Microsoft tools and technologies, so for me, non-MS technologies were the "dark-side". Visual Studio is by far the best IDE I have ever used (speaking mostly of the code completion/intellisense for C#). I haven't found an IDE for Javascript or Python that even comes close. Having been "there and back again", I think the air is greener and the grass is fresher :) in the space not dominated by one large company. There tends to be more "small, sharp tools" created by different people, that work together, rather than one large "does everything" tool. The non-MS communities tend to have smarter people doing more complex/significant code/components. In particular, I'm very much impressed by the Python community and the prototypejs.org library. Stickman,

Great to see you expanding your toolbox and learning some of the MS tools. In college and at my first three programming jobs, I’ve primarily been exposed to Microsoft tools and technologies, so for me, non-MS technologies were the “dark-side”.

Visual Studio is by far the best IDE I have ever used (speaking mostly of the code completion/intellisense for C#). I haven’t found an IDE for Javascript or Python that even comes close.

Having been “there and back again”, I think the air is greener and the grass is fresher :) in the space not dominated by one large company. There tends to be more “small, sharp tools” created by different people, that work together, rather than one large “does everything” tool. The non-MS communities tend to have smarter people doing more complex/significant code/components. In particular, I’m very much impressed by the Python community and the prototypejs.org library.

]]> By: Mom http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Mom Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:00:05 +0000 http://the-stickman.com/general/response-from-the-dark-side/#comment-926 That's lovely dear, keep up the good work! That’s lovely dear, keep up the good work!

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