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Comment on NH Code Camp 09 by Ahmed AL-Sayed

Ahmed AL-Sayed — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:04:31 +0000

oh man, Welcome to real life
I can see you are attending very professional sessions by expert speakers worldwide. Keep it up

Comment on Designing the perfect form by Ahmed AL-Sayed

Ahmed AL-Sayed — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:00:59 +0000

Yeah really great one Waleed. I liked the examples so much.

Comment on Chrome’s benefits for a developer by Mohamed Abd ElWahab

Mohamed Abd ElWahab — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:18:51 +0000

Let’s say, it is a good start for Chrome but still Firefox is the best development browser

Comment on Google entered the browsers battle by Ahmed IG

Ahmed IG — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:10:45 +0000

yeah, it really rocks, I like the speed where it serves my requests. And one of the best features it has, is the internal Task Manager, where you can “end process” the tab that is not responding or causing any problems, while keeping the rest untouched!!

Comment on A Java or a .Net Developer, which one is better? (developer look) by rich

rich — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:57:38 +0000

this is a no brainer from my perspective. i have been spending the last 3 months full time refreshing my computer skill set. i have learned both .net and java. i have struggled with .net due to microsoft’s barrier’s of needing new hardware and a new operating system. i have successfully learned c# and parts of sql server. i was not able to continue with asp.net due to these barriers. vista did not help either when i bought a new laptop. due to frustration, i have started my learning with java. i see way more potential and career opps with this platform. i am able to run all CURRENT tools like eclipse (which is awesome), and ibm’s websphere and RAD 7. also, i have loaded up some pretty neat databases with my current and aged set up. this software did not cost me a dime and it runs both on my macs and windows. try that with microsoft and you see why many corporations/developers are moving to java. microsoft has buried themselves unfortunately. with the excitement of google’s new initiative with open social, android, and GWT, you wonder who has won this futuristic battle. oh. this all runs under javs and the newer languages. microsoft is desperately trying to catch up or hang on to what they have. java has become a huge juggernaut in terms of language and as a platform choice. many high profile sites are done in java including amazon, cnn, and many fortune 500s. websphere also appears to rule this roost as well. when you factor a 40+% market share for oracle, 18% for db2, and only 8% for sql server, you quickly realize how small microsoft is in the enterprise market. i do feel .net appears to play a support role where java/jee plays the lead for new projects. the cost, portability, and more seem to have microsoft scared on the development side. also, on the web front, google seems to have the excitement behind developers with the mentioned frameworks. they are also open source. i hope microsoft can catch up at some point but i am already long gone learning java since there are no barriers in learning this stuff. it is just complex but i am excited by it and see a definite future with java. anyhow, enough babbling but these are my neutral experiences.

Comment on A Java or a .Net Developer, which one is better? (developer look) by vacanthouser

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Comment on A Java or a .Net Developer, which one is better? (developer look) by Mohammad Gabr

Mohammad Gabr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:41:43 +0000

I think one shouldn’t be a “X” technology developer.A good one should be a software developer.As he will die if his tool dies or even becomes old enough (look for example , COBOL developers now).
So i doesn’t matter which tool you use although as you said “your first job destination becomes your track” is true , but in the end it is a tool , so you can change it whenever you need.

Comment on A Java or a .Net Developer, which one is better? (developer look) by Neven Abdullah

Neven Abdullah — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:05:34 +0000

yes, I agree with the part of MS that wins and their developers don’t.
but I see if you had one way path it would be better, I’ve a brother who did so and now he is doing good on his job, and went into the project management.

Comment on A Java or a .Net Developer, which one is better? (developer look) by Fady Anwar

Fady Anwar — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:57:07 +0000

“it’s like when a country wins a war and their people get into a deep poverty and their soldiers get killed, the country still wins but all what their people have is the pride. Microsoft won but their developers didn’t.”

i love this part (Y)

Comment on A Java or a .Net Developer, which one is better? (developer look) by Fred

Fred — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:48:25 +0000

Interesting post. The fact is, it has only been “Java vs. .NET” for a relatively short time.

The key is to know how to program, how to design software, and how to really understand what you are doing. Most importantly, you need to be able to learn new things, because whichever path you take, even if you do not switch back and forth, most of what you know in terms of a specific language or technology will be irrelevant in 10 years.

I started out in languages like Assembler, FORTRAN, PL/1, etc. I have used a couple of dozen different languages professionally, and even more just from an investigative learning perspective. It no longer matters what the language is – the key is to know how to develop systems, and in almost all cases the choice of programmer language or environment is not that important.