the case against .NET

Time for a change.

This Citroën DS was caught in Steyning High Street on the morning of Sunday June 19th, 2005. The driver told me he owned 11 of these cars.
The DS (in French, this sounds the same as the word for goddess) is 50 years old this year. Special celebrations will take place [...]

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I’m aiming to change the header graphic regularly. The opening image shows the River Thames in London, taken from the new Hungerford Bridge on a dull afternoon, Saturday January 29th 2005.

I was in London for the visit of Sheffield United - the football (soccer) team I support - to West Ham United, for an [...]

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Nick Bradbury reports on the creation of AttentionTrust.org, a not-for-profit “dedicated to promoting the basic rights of attention owners”.
As Nick suggests, the concept of attention data seems pretty woolly to most of us. The idea is that, as society becomes increasingly web-oriented, more and more companies are gathering information about things we’re all [...]

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First off, I have nothing against .NET per se.
My issue is with software developers who rush headlong towards .NET without, apparently, stopping to question whether it’s the right technology for their situation. In fact I’m convinced that, in most cases, it’s not the right technology.
As I said though, I have nothing against .NET. If I’d [...]

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