10: Yes Virginia, Worse is Better
13 August 2012
As much as we might like to have different fully native applications for every platform we target — that can be more than a little inefficient not to mention expensive. This episode is all about compromise.
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- Sigflup writes in to disagree with me regarding finding bugs while porting apps and share his awesome project
- Community recommendations on source control books
- Source Control by Example
- Rellon or Ruby hacker writes in to clarify what he wants to do with Ruby and puts his vote in for a testing episode.
- Bill has been teaching himself some coding but wants to be a systems programmer and wonders if there is money in that.
- James is working in C# as an ASP.Net developer, is learning Python, and has to make a decision regarding design patterns.
- Github clarifications
- A lot of you came to the defense of QT; Chris and I clarify.
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This Week’s Dev World Hoopla
- Digia bought QT — please don’t go the way of Mono….
- Steve Yegge’s Liberal / Conservative Software Axis
- ZOMG TextMate 2!
Mikes a Sad Panda
- Sales progress….
Write Once Suck Everywhere
- Using the same code base across multiple platforms
- How Java fits in
- Other options?
- About those pesky designers….
- The Great Web Hope
- 20,000 Leagues Under Java!