Hanselminutes Podcast 104 - Dave Laribee on ALT.NET
My one-hundred-and-fourth podcast is up. In this episode I talk to the always thought-provoking David Laribee (blog) who coined the term ALT.NET just last year. It's turned into a Open Spaces Conference and continues to challenge the status quo, reminding .NET developers of the importance of being agile and enabling processes for continuous improvement.
What does it mean to be to be ALT.NET? In short it signifies:
- You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way.
- You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc.
- You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc.
- You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles
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Check out their UI Suite of controls for ASP.NET. It's very hardcore stuff. One of the things I appreciate about Telerik is their commitment to completeness. For example, they have a page about their Right-to-Left support while some vendors have zero support, or don't bother testing. They also are committed to XHTML compliance and publish their roadmap. It's nice when your controls vendor is very transparent.
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Also, the voice of Carl suddenly appearing in the middle of the show was a little jarring. How about some sort of ". . . and now, a word from our sponsor" introduction to ease the transition.
Keep up the good work.
I was really disappointed by the DotNetRocks-style unannounced commercial in the middle. It's the single most annoying part of the DNR show and now it's here too...
Commercials might be hard to avoid, and I don't know/have no right to know anything about the financial aspects of a free podcast.
However, the unannounced thing here tricks my brain into believing that what I hear about Telerik is just as important as what you are discussing with a guest. And when I realise that it's not, I also feel tricked and that feeling doesn't go well with the scott's-my-buddy-feeling that has been building up over the last few years.
Me, I'll do what I always do anyway: I dive for my iPod and spins the dial 60seconds into the future, hoping I don't miss anything important. Cursing. And next time I might look at the show summary beforehand to see it's worth an annoying interruption of flow, instead of taking on every show in the row.
Still, you do good things :)
(phew, that was one long techless wonder comment...)
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