Comments on: Microsoft Still Has the Best Development Platform http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/ It's about shipping code. Damn good code. But it's not about writing code. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:04:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Karell Ste-Marie http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-1703 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:43:53 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-1703 There is no perfect development stack, they all have their flaws. Just like every culture has flaws, every person has flaws, etc…

However, my advice would be – pick the flaws you know and are comfortable working with that will bring you the results you need.

Picking a stack is like making other choices in life – do your homework and then make your choice.

In the middle of the desert, a hairdryer will be useless…

]]> By: Anonymous http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-1478 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:32:51 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-1478 Rafal, What open source solutions do you use?

]]> By: Rafal http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-1201 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:10:15 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-1201 Why waste time, effort, and money trying to create your own development platform if there are great tools that are available out there already?

I used to be a .net, asp.net developer. Now I use open source solutions. Why? Because they make my life easier and work better than the .NET platform.

Plus, putting Microsoft’s tools aside, one will realize what is actually available to help them out, instead of using a tool that was given to them on a platter, and not knowing better.

]]> By: Guy http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-1200 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:56:29 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-1200 Some fair points, but how does it make mores sense to buy mac hardware when you factor in initial cost and replacement parts/upgrades?

]]> By: Microsoft Still has the best development platform « Chicago Mac/PC Support http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-946 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:03:19 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-946 [...] This guy likes Apple but feels that Windows is a better development platform.  Click here to [...]

]]> By: foobar http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-937 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:29:35 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-937 Late to the party, but oh well :)

Objective C is verbose because, well, it needs to be. Memory matters on mobile devices still.

As for the ludicrous assertions from some of the replies here, it’s obvious who here only does web development.

]]> By: Karell Ste-Marie http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-912 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:59:04 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-912 Meaning that the .NET Mobile Platform is not good?

I don’t have any experience there so I can’t disagree but I know for a fact that no platform is perfect.

I’d go Linux with some of our products but then I wouldn’t have anyone to call at 3am when it crashes.

]]> By: Hamid Shojaee http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-911 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:55:01 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-911 Karell, that’s easy…that’s because the Microsoft Mobile platform blows. Still, MS is the only company with the full spectrum of dev tools.

Hamid

]]> By: Karell Ste-Marie http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-910 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:47:28 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-910 Respectfully,

If the Microsoft Platform is so great, why didn’t you do a Windows Mobile Phone app instead? Why go iPhone?

]]> By: Alberto http://shipsoftwareontime.com/2009/06/25/microsoft-still-has-the-best-development-platform/#comment-897 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:29:38 +0000 http://shipsoftwareontime.com/?p=379#comment-897 Are you sure your article title its about the Development Platform? I disagree with you a lot. Maybe, if you change the title to “Microsoft Still Has the Best Integrated Development Environment” it will get closer to what you points out. But however it is a fact that the .NET platform isn’t the best at all. About Apple, ok, that’s the greatest thing about Mac, it is not about development, it is about use. So yes the development tools for Apple platforms aren’t the best, but it doesn’t mean platform doesn’t work, otherwise the cutest OSX should not be better than the greatest Vista -but it is not the case right?

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