Back in the mists of time, when .NET was young and new and beloved of enterprise software developers, there was An Idea. Some…
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…
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…
One of my reasons for moving my blog from https://geekswithblogs.net/twickers was due…
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.