QDB: Quote #737380
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of dialup, I will fear no lag: for thou art with me; thy lights and thy bandwidth they comfort me. Thou preparest a website before me in the presence of mine boredom: thou anointest my ports with data; my hard drive runneth over. Surely fast surfing and low access rates shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of cisco systems for ever.
I am amazed at this fun site. It’s one of those places that you can submit IRC quotes to and it will review them for how good they are. Then it ranks them. The link above will take you to the top 100 list, check it out!
Normally, I’m pretty negative about Microsoft and their whole culture. I’ve tried deciphering all of the dev-speak, gobly gook, and acronymn-mania that Microsoft has at Technet and MSDN. Trying to make sense of their documentation as a neophyte is pretty daunting when it comes to trying to learn. Microsoft seems to operate on the assumption that to learn something, your going to have to buy the book, so why try to make things easy to understand. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not criticizing them because they are successful mind you, I just disagree with some of the decisions that they have made in that success to try to maintain it.
I’ve not seen anything truly ‘revolutionary’ out of Redmond for a long, long while. I’ve seen controversial aplenty, but not anything truly original. I may have to reconsider that opinion in light of a new resource that Microsoft has launched. It’s a website called the “Beginner Developer Learning Center” located at Microsoft’s MSDN center. Someone over at M$ seems to have had the inspiration that if they make the windows application development platform available freely to the public, along with tutorials, lessons, and other resources designed around teaching people how to use it effectively, that they will draw in a fraction of the upcoming generations of programmers.
The website is broken down into two main categories, the Web development track, and the Windows Application development track. In each of the categories, or sections, it is further broken down into three Tiers.
Take a look at the website here at Beginner Developer Learning Center!
