Exactly my thoughts. Great, yet another browser. Now we've got IE6, IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, Opera, Safari, and now Chrome. Eesh. I'm moving to Silverlight.

I'm sorry, did you just say that ROR was the best tool available today? Excuse me while I die of laughter...

That was pretty dumb. And incorrect anyway.

C# does not have "dynamic typing" yet. The "var" keyword is "implicit typing". If you're going to mock something you know nothing about, please just save it.

3 - I have debates with myself over this one. Yes, it makes sense from a data-integrity point of view, but at the same time it encourages code duplication, which is a very bad thing in my opinion.

9 - I disagree. CAPITAL LETTERS are difficult to read. The only reason SQL used this to start with is because syntax highlighting hadn't been invented yet. Now that it has, there's really no reason to use them anymore.

11 - Very much disagree. SP's have no performance or security advantages over ad-hoc queries, and creates codebases which are a nightmare to maintain.

Firstly, your point was about proprietary formats, and so was my comment.

Second, I'm not saying it's easy for one person to reverse engineer a standard as big as office. However, every single time I talk to OSS advocates, they claim that OSS is far superior to proprietary software because they have an army of millions of developers who can crush any product out there because they have such manpower. My point was, if this was true, why do they complain so much about proprietary formats? Surely, with an army of millions of coders who work for free, it would be absolutely no problem for them, right? So what's their complaint?

There's nothing to prevent a 3rd party organization from making a black-box reverse-engineered program that is compatible with proprietary document formats. OSS advocates often tout that it's better than paid software because they have millions of coders who can do things far more efficiently than any company... so what's their complaint, exactly? What's stopping them from making a document editor that's 100% Office compatible?

I wouldn't say it's dangerous per se, but it's definitely interesting. I would have never expected Convert.ToInt32 would actually perform a rounding operation.

I dare Linux proponents to show me a development platform that works half as well as Visual Studio. I've used Eclipse, and god willing, I'll never have to use it again.