Java SE 6 is out and SUN has given me a reason to upgrade! Web Services deployment has been simplified using Endpoint, you no longer need to write deployment descriptors and start containers, this is the super quick prototyping that Microsoft .NET developers have enjoyed for years!
Speaking of .NET, it seems more and more unlikely that I will invest a lot of my time as a developer learning “.NET 3.0.”
I love developing with the .NET framework and Visual Studio but Microsoft has tied .NET’s fate to Vista and hasn’t given me any reason to believe Vista will be a “success.” I also imagine the cost of development, i.e. licenses and hardware, will be much greater than before, couple this with the great new platforms available and the trend towards developing web applications, Microsoft technologies just don’t look as profitable.
Finally, I’ve played around with Ruby on Rails quiet a bit this past month, working with it has been really enjoyable. I can’t say anything new about RoR but I want to mention that I really prefer Rails’ “convention over configuration” methodology, most of the conventions are intuitive and they save me from writing the same configuration files over and over again.
Till next time.
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My next side-project is going to be in Ruby on Rails, so I will finally get some hands-on with the framework and language.
I too am not so thrilled with .NET lately, however it is still my bread and butter. I think my faith in ASP.NET will be restored when I get some more practice with castle’s frameworks. They look promising, and I am already toying around with Castle ActiveRecord.
Ben Scheirman - 19 Dec 06 at 8:16 am
RoR is fun to work, you might lose what remaining faith you have with ASP.NET when you work on your side project.
Shey - 19 Dec 06 at 1:09 pm
Ugh, RoR is fun to work with
Shey - 19 Dec 06 at 1:11 pm