The .net myth balloon exploding
If you are reader s of this blog occasionally or if you are subscribers to my Rss you probably know that I do alot of .net coding side-by-side with other technologies both on server side and on client side.
Also, you probably know that I do love to code .net and create amazing application with these technologies and frameworks ms are putting out into the market for years now.
Frankly, I've seen the myth's about .net being written about, talked about and the buzz is out there. .net is being trashed talked at about every open source community out there. recently I started coding with Ruby On Rails and I was absolutely shocked by the myth's that are going on in that online community of developers.
So, in this post I will take each point and act as a myth buster 
it's going to be interesting...
The (natural) combination between ROR and flex
Well, I have been working with Flex for the past 2 years now, recently I bought a mac and I started developing Ruby On Rails applications.
I started thinking how does these 2 technologies combine together, Ruby on rails on the server side and flex on the client side, I found the combination to be very natural and easy, you can actually get quite a bit of satisfaction from combining these 2 together.
I know I did, and in this post I will show you how to build a phone book application where you can created new records in your phone book and have an HTML client side and FLEX client side with only just about 10 minutes of work.
Stop chasing that green light
Well, after a long while of thinking about it, I finally saw this post.
Matt Cutts, probably the only guy in the world that can discuss the google algorithm finally breaks the silence about it and go out into the open and saying this...
DO NOT break you head struggling with getting your code to validate, I will exaplain some more about my opinion in this post
Scaling a real life messaging application
Sometimes in life you get to a point that your servers are not enough, the users are attacking (good attack ) you application and the servers simply can't handle the load.
Well, this was exactly the case with a client of mine, the client is a forex company, they had 2K concurrent users and they currently in the process of redesigning the client application and plan to grow up to 20K concurrent users.
This is a classic job for me, this is what I do, it's a different company with different needs, so, in this post I will give you the solution I gave the company without revealing details about the company of course
How to become a professioal developer (1)
In this post I will talk about how to become a professional, whether you are a freelance developer or a team member inside of a company we are all unprofessional until proven other wise.
I was very impressed and took great notes from Uncle Bob before writing this post, but this post also comes from the heart after seeing more than a couple of teams struggling, freelancers loosing clients and more...
This post will be written point after point, I will explain each of these points in my language and give you examples from real life where I saw things went wrong and how you can improve them in your own micro-cosmus.
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