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Longest Day of the Year

Well not really, not for this part of the world and not for me.

Three things that surprised me today and one that didn't:

1. There are no real NAnt tasks for Subversion. I get by with some tasks, but I'm surprised these aren't floating around. There are some that are part of Ankh, but they're no longer functional, Ankh won't compile against 1.1 and I'm not really looking for excuses to install 1.1.

2. After four years, it doesn't seem like there's much of anything going on in the .NET development process/infrastructure tools department. Confluence, JIRA, Subversion + WebSVN, these things all seem to be miles ahead of anything going on outside of Redmond. Sure VS Team System is going to right all wrongs (for a decent price)... not sure if I believe and not sure it says much about the .NET community. I don't know what we'd do without the various Java ports. When I add the elapsed time and the progress demonstrated in this space, that surprises me. Maybe Vault + their forthcoming dashboard/collaboration/issue/whatever app will be solid, Vault compares favorably to svn--but the difference in pricing is significant... I work for a F50 company and getting approvals for Vault seats just ain't happening (and really, why should it, just for advisory locks?)

3. Congrats to Scott on getting hooked up with Rob Howard's new company. Good stuff. The transition of .Text to Community Server :: Blogs was sort of a surprise, I was off in my own little world working on the 0.96 release of .Text. In any event, since 0.96 was already on the way to being membership compatible with ASP.NET Forums 2.0, aka, Community Server :: Forums, I'm guessing that there's some nice leverage/synergy in the cards.

This will probably be the only place to ever put the new .Text identity stuff. I think the revamped UI can be re-used for something else so I'll just put that one away somewhere.

4. PHP: 5.0 and it still sucks. Okay, okay, I take it back. You can do anything with it, it's very wide... but why would you want to? I guess because it's free and it's what you know... if it solves the problem, then it's a solution, I suppose.

 

Published Friday, July 16, 2004 3:33 AM by grant

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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:47 AM by grant

# re: Longest Day of the Year

Does this mean that an active developer of .Text (the only other one I know of other than Scott) didn't know that the plans for .Text were changing? I've only been using .Text for a month or so now so I don't really know the history, but the direction and community input has been the one thing bothering me. From Scott's comments I assumed he was the only one actively working on it, but then I saw your messages. Can you provide some direction of where it's going? The CS::Blog thing doesn't give any info at all.

I hope this doesn't sound bad, cause I really like .Text. The direction is the only thing that doesn't give me the warm fuzzies. However, if development stopped totally at 0.95, I might be okay :-)
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:06 PM by grant

# re: Longest Day of the Year

I think the direction of the application and the community it supports (and that supports it) will do nothing but get better. It sounds like Scott will have more cycles to dedicate to whatever .Text becomes and that will ultimately benefit the community. Personally, I wouldn't predict anything but positive trends.

I'm sure they'll be more info about a roadmap from Scott and telligent when they're further along in their transition and planning processes.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:09 PM by grant

# re: Longest Day of the Year

Thanks for the info, I hope my comment didn't sound too negative. I'm just hoping to find out what the developer team looks like and to know how suggestions/patches are going to be received.
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