Comments on: Startrip Enterprise Architects http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3058/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:52:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Can anybody else C through the Windows any more? -- Chip’s Quips http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3058/#comment-105818 Can anybody else C through the Windows any more? -- Chip’s Quips Sat, 27 May 2006 17:47:35 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3058/#comment-105818 [...] A couple of weeks ago, TDavid made some fine remarks about how simple most of today’s programming is, despite the “enterprise” hype that depicts it as exceedingly complex. He contrasted web and desktop programming with low-level, close-to-the-metal development that truly is difficult. Well, lately I’ve acquired a fresh reminder of how insanely complicated programming Windows in ANSI C at the Win32 API level can be. [...] […] A couple of weeks ago, TDavid made some fine remarks about how simple most of today’s programming is, despite the “enterprise” hype that depicts it as exceedingly complex. He contrasted web and desktop programming with low-level, close-to-the-metal development that truly is difficult. Well, lately I’ve acquired a fresh reminder of how insanely complicated programming Windows in ANSI C at the Win32 API level can be. […]

]]> By: Sterling Camden http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3058/#comment-60461 Sterling Camden Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:34:35 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060320/3058/#comment-60461 Yes, I agree. I am constantly amazed at how easy it is to become proficient in most programming arenas with only a few days of research and playing around -- and at how many months some companies spend *not* tackling new projects because they are shaking in their boots over having to learn new technology. Among the classes of "difficult" programming I would add some bridge programming. Constructing interfaces between software systems that are unfriendly towards such a match often involves a huge amount of creativity and problem-solving, not to mention feeling like you need a shower at the end of the day to wash off all the legacy spaghetti code. MS has definitely sought out the Enterprise market, methinks mostly to counter Oracle. But lately they have made some overtures towards the lone developer. Witness the "free" versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio forthcoming. Yes, I agree. I am constantly amazed at how easy it is to become proficient in most programming arenas with only a few days of research and playing around — and at how many months some companies spend *not* tackling new projects because they are shaking in their boots over having to learn new technology.

Among the classes of “difficult” programming I would add some bridge programming. Constructing interfaces between software systems that are unfriendly towards such a match often involves a huge amount of creativity and problem-solving, not to mention feeling like you need a shower at the end of the day to wash off all the legacy spaghetti code.

MS has definitely sought out the Enterprise market, methinks mostly to counter Oracle. But lately they have made some overtures towards the lone developer. Witness the “free” versions of SQL Server and Visual Studio forthcoming.

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