watch this space. great things are coming.

Liam Westley in altdotnet

Jun 6, 2017

The Future of .NET

tldr; .NET Core — it’s the democratisation of programming again.
It’s open to all, let’s welcome everybody in.

One of my reasons for moving my blog from https://geekswithblogs.net/twickers was due…

Robin Minto in altdotnet

Mar 3, 2017

Alt.NET and Me

Microsoft, community and .NET Renaissance

I wasn’t there in the beginning. In 2003, whilst I was taking some time out to go snowboarding, a small group of pioneers were inciting the .NET revolution. Dissatisfied with the oppression of Microsoft…

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Ian Cooper in altdotnet

Feb 24, 2017

On the need for a C# Renaissance

In 2011, Bob Lee, speaking at OSCON, rallied Java developers against the decline in the usage of that language post the rise of Ruby on Rails, and identified that the time was right for a Java…

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Dylan Beattie in altdotnet

Feb 20, 2017

Bring back alt.NET? But… why?

Pull up a chair, dear reader. I’m going to tell you why I think we should revive alt.NET, but first, we need to establish a little context, which means it’s time for a good old-fashioned origin story.

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