The Benefits of Doing Nothing

The longer you stay in software, the more technologies you’ll likely see become commoditized. Things that once used to be quite difficult, specialized, and costly inevitably become simple, accessible, and cheap (if not free). Some examples of capabilities that have been commoditized might include: Antivirus CMS’ Source Control Advanced hosting/infrastructure (e.g. Geo-redundant storage, elastic computing, … Continued

A Decade of Mono

Still Kicking For those who track this stuff, Mono will turn 10 years old this summer. Since June 30th 2004, the Mono team has been relentlessly trailing the ever evolving CLR (Microsoft’s implementation of the CLI), and hasn’t seemed to stop or get bored with the idea. At time of writing, they still trail a … Continued