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Mike Moore and the alt.net podcast latest edition are addressing the
issues surrounding the so-called petition and the fallout from the ‘vote of no confidence’ in the entity framework. Mike’s guests are Jeremy D. Miller (the shade tree developer) and Ward Bell and from the discussion it appears that my sentiments on the event (the petition that is) were not far from the madding crowd. Its a very interesting discussion, goes into some considerable detail and definitely worth a listen.
Well it looks like some members of the DotNet Community have decided to take a nutty very strange and unusual position of biting the hand that feeds, by posting a petition of signatories to a VOTE of NO Confidence in the Entity Framework (soon to be released).
Three questions arise from this:
Do I disagree with their main assertions?
Simply the answer is NO, I do NOT disagree with any of the points made in the assertions on the petition. In fact I believe their contribution, in dispensing opinion based on real world business experience to the development community is enormously valuable and to be considered seriously by developers where it’s appropriate. However I am not so sure about their skills in diplomacy.
Why do I think this is nuts strange?
Microsoft know very well what the position of this collection of people is and the thing that stuck out to me as being “off”, was the title of the exercise and even perhaps the method. Firstly, using a petition denotes a protest more than it does a community warning or announcement and secondly, the title of the petition “Vote of No Confidence”, I think is less than diplomatic and sounds a little desperate.
What will the Founders think?
I will be interested to note how this plays out with the contribution of the Data Programmability Advisory Council (the fathers of DDD) who oddly enough are not signatories of the petition………
I will be speaking at the September meeting of the alt.Net User group about Task Based user interfaces, their benefits and how explicitly modelled code can make the job easier, more manageable and lead to systems that leave the business in control. I will also discuss how this approach can leverage alternative patterns to MVVM and work hand in hand with messaging.
