Journey in Odessia is a 1-bit, turn-based RPG similar to Pokemon or Breath of Fire for the Gameboy Advance. There are currently 150 maps. I originally built this game for the TI graphing calculator ( NSpire CX || ) in order to inspire youth to pursue computer science education. We are approaching a time where CS may be the only path to employment for the next generation. I think most programmers were inspired to pursue CS education by playing games. I certainly was. I ported it to PC and published in the Microsoft Store as a way of generating passive income.
Certainly not me. I abandoned a project, and the new guy coming in wants to abandon the current solution and use coldbox running on lucee. I've given my advice that it's too risky/too niche, but we'll see what happens.
Thanks for your post. We should try to get this out to the major news outlets too. This guy is so f*cked up...why is it that rich people are always so stingy
I feel the same way as the author. I got introduced to .NET two years ago at a job. I came from a PHP background. I've come to really appreciate .NET and the CLR, and as a developer, I'm convinced I'm way more productive in .NET. I'm currently building something in Mono outside of my day job, and it's so great to be able to use .NET on linux.
I realize that Microsoft and .NET may not have had that great of a past (WebForms ruined its rep IMHO)...but using the new MVC and EntityFramework...it's clear that .NET is back on the bleeding edge.
Also...most .NET devs like working in .NET because we can be productive in it, but keep in mind--.NET haters--that most of the time we're not the ones that chose the stack...we're just left in a position where hardware/sys-admins/MIS at companies that are still afraid of the cloud are mandating that we have to use Windows and .NET.
It's going to be annoying for developers. We often put special query string hooks to test functionality or debug queries...it'd be kind of a pain to have to enable flag in chrome just to be able to type in the URL.
Currently alot of custom stuff. Mainly in .NET with hosted Powershell. Chef also supports Windows as you found but support is abit too strong of a word sometimes.
The reality is that Windows DevOps means rolling alot of your own and integrating back with the System Center suite, specifically Operations Manger, Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager.
What is nice about the Windows world is most of the core services actually have decent either fully managed (.NET) or atleast reasonable native APIs. Powershell is also very widespread now which is quite nice to interact with from C#/.NET.
Wow, first time I've seen Virtual Machine Manager mentioned in the wild. I was on the original team that built that product at Microsoft. How long I fought for a real, native API :( Worst part was that there was a decent one hiding beneath the PowerShell layer that was not exposed.
Yeah.. I am currently loading that assembly up and using it from C#.. I am not sure of the licensing implications but it's not too bad once you wrap it abit.
VMM is actually great. As are the technologies that come with it. NVGRE and the new multi-tenant gateway (net compartments + BGP basically) is awesome.
TI version (free): https://ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/477/47756.html
PC Version: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/journey-in-odessia-chapter...