Yesterday, Microsoft Academic Day (MAD) a story of success that was born and raised in Jordan , out of some enthusiastic Jordanian students leading the .net clubs in Jordanian universities, and starting to spread along the region's .net student communities supported of course by the company, Microsoft.
This is the 2nd ever MAD event, and my 2nd as well!
Here's why i came out with the title up here, based on what i've seen yesterday, and comparing it with the way Oracle Developer Days (The Oracle and Java one that was held on my birthday particularly speaking) where there was a pretty wide space for Open Source technologies around.
Since the very start of the event, the Microsoft personnel had came over open source technologies in his keynote session out of nowhere saying “oh, what interpreted PHP, or MySQL ... we are giving you real technology talk in here !”.
more over, later during one of the ASP.NET 2.0 sessions, one of the guys, I really cant remember if its the guy from compu-base or a .net brain washed student, saying: “la2nno haik a7san, e7na mesh PHP hon” (English: because this is the way it should be, we're not interested in PHP in here).
I mean: I've worked on Microsoft's .net technologies, and on ASP.NET 2.0 particularly, and it is a pretty powerful platform, and supported by a “kinda still buggy if you want my opinion about Visual Studio 2005” but a strong one for sure that you can't really not take into consideration when developing.
But you have no single right to talk about PHP in such a way only because you are a lousy lazy person or a personnel at a company that is considers open source technologies its primary enemy.
PHP and that small shell toy called MySQL is running millions of people's manners and information in the best possible way and with less than 5% of the costs of running the same manners and information with the same reliability and performance with Microsoft's technologies (ASP.NET – MS SQL Server – MS IIS - MS Win Servers).... and the Web says it all!
On the other hand later on, talking about ASP.NET 2.0, the guy from compu-base international, while talking about validating forms data said: “Now its even easier to make it with Visual Studio 2005, no need for any line of Javascript, who's the lousy that writes Javascript anymore, its all here!”.
And another [being-funny] guy talking about Microsoft's AJAX platform ATLAS said: “you need to write code if you are not using ATLAS, you need to write Java .... Javascript in order to do it, who still writes Javascript nowadays, who even likes to write code!”..
Hell Ya! Many got Java and Javascript confused yesterday, despite there's absolutely nothing in common between them but the 1st 4 letters!.... and who do you expect to hire you baby when telling him in the interview “who still writes Javascript nowadays” ... if you don't know Javascript then you should know that you aren't developing web really better than a 15 year old school student using pirate tools!
And isn't the “so-called lousy stupid” Javascript that enabled you to get to this level in development, actually the methods you are using for form validation my dear trainer in Visual Studio comes out in Javascript by the end of the day if you have ever tried to give a look at the generated code at the client side.
& By the way, mostly no one could understand what is AJAX nor examples implementing it until Rami Arafat mentioned Google MAPs and GMAIL. Wasn't that strange after all to find most of the students not knowing about Web 2.0 , neither conceptually nor technically, if there were speakers not knowing Web 2.0 concepts as you might read later in this post in the RSS lousy experiment on IE 7.
Of course the event couldn't but get by Mozilla firefox making it the stupid (i-dunno-why-people-use-it) browser that is used by old fashioned people! Starting from a question made by one of the attendants (a Microsoft .net club committee member with a certification badge on his shirt), asking why ASP.NET components are not rendered properly on Mozilla's browser, of course the answering discussion (where the asking, answering, and a note-to-add personnel were the contributors of it) resulted in making Firefox a non-standard, stupid, buggy that browser that people that are using it are stupid just because a couple of security issues!!!!!!!!
Not because Firefox is the standard and Microsoft is just making its own standards out of its minds trying to imply them on people's lives!
By the way, those Microsoft .net club committee members and students that were blinded by Microsoft were clapping each and every 5 minutes just to make people clap for the speaker on his silly jokes, drag and drops, and WOW-y actions..... DUH!
I Worked with Microsoft, It was a pleasure and a very nice experience, but .... why is this un-ethical stupidness acted by some of those guys!!! I clapped only when there was a reason to do it (example: the Vista session speaker wanting to show IE 7 opening google.com ;P )
Further more, during the Vista session, that was introduced proudly with: “Who still uses less than 1G RAM on his home PC”... talking about IE 7, tabs were made to be a (New Cool Stuff) that Firefox's tabs are old fashion, forgetting the fact that the tabs fashion was born long long time ago in Netscape and the fact that the guys at Microsoft took over 4 years to understand the tabs code from the open sourced Netscape in order to implement it and be the LAST web-browser on planet earth to implement it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course totally wrongly describing RSS, without forgetting the claim that IE 7 is the master of RSS!! of course, IE 7 couldnt resist that much when it simply broke down when clicking the RSS feed icon, where it simply entered the feed's xml file instead of bookmarking the feed just like IE 6, this is when the speaker said that if this was IE 6 it would have been XML code appearing, ignoring the fact that most the XML RSS feeds on the web are decorated with XSL transforms just in order not to appear in an XML tagged structure!
Epically that the experiment was don't on engadget.com, which was also introduced as (one of the famous companies) instead of a BLOG!
Of course there were many “stuff” in Vista's session that i don't wanna mention, nagging to buy it and buy a hardware that has 2-3G of RAM and 256M VGA cards!!!!!
The Microsoft blinded kidos of course got amazed with Vista while I'm still satisfied with running a 3D that they will never face as far as they will keep blinding their self with Microsoft Technologies with Looking Glass running on my 4 years old machine powered by 1999 Megas of Processor speed, hubbling and bubbling with its 384M SD-RAMs and a loudy built-in intel VGA.
The Best speaker was, no doubt, the Jordanian Story of Success, khaireddin Bushnaq, a Direct X developer that has really rocked the event, away from the usual business application stuff, and showing us a trailer of the 3D Petra project he's working on...... He was the best person that i gave away my hardest claps to, and it wasn't only me of course ;)
YOU ROCK MAN!
Eh, so ..... where is the problem ... why is this still going on more and more ...!
I've always considered the problem in Microsoft's technologies in the Jordanian IT community the Mass out of Microsoft technologies' developers, more particularly those introducing the technologies, certified center trainers, and students thinking .net technology instead of information technology where .net is considered a choice of a development platform and tool set.
And Yeah,,, this turn to use a technology to think off instead of information technology made this lack of ethics available and spreading more and more....
Are those at Microsoft liking it, maybe, and apparently they are in away or another, they are considering it an investment maybe, but its worth mentioning that the best Microsoft technology freaks are actually all-kinda-technology developers not Microsofto-mono-logy developers, people with ethics not just hand clappers!
3 comments:
Thank you for all of this feedback about MAD.
First of all,
you have to change the title to "Evangelists" instead of "Gospelers",
'coz we're not talking souls here.
I do respect your opinion in some crisps of this post, but around most
of it is not suitable to mention !!
NASIM,i'm not of course MS blinded, this is just to know about me. what
you have seen yesterday, is just what so called "Level 50" according to
MS sessions rating system, level 50 = pre-novice, or the very beginner
level, of course, leave DirectX session off, 'coz it must not be at MAD.
with my respect to all who delivered those sessions, they are either
students or developers, but Neither evangelists nor Technology
Specialists, except for the 25-certificates holder, Mr. Muhie El Din!!
MAD is a mini-event, you would expect alot of faults and
mis-understanding to alot of issues. And by the way, i was offered to
present the Vista session instead of my friend Muhannad and his firend, i
actaully forgot his name (the guy's from KSA), but wallahi I refused for
alot of reasons, with my respect to attendees, nobody will get the idea
behind Windows Vista from a developer perspective, no body will
understand (from a first look) what is the real meaning of developing
ORCAS-based apps or WPF/E apps or what's the real meaning behind
developing MCML, so i found it not useful to present a "300 level"
session at MAD, mentioning that I, Bander, Najeeb and Ayman (unless i
forgot any other) were the real testers for Vista, i shocked when i
raised my hand being the only one using vista !! OMG !!
yesterday's guys gave attendees a very basic ideas about a
begin-to-be-old Microsoft Technologies, I'm saying that because
we really got bored developing using VS05 since 2004, so we always
wanted new stuff, such as: MCML, WPF/E, ORCAS Feb CTP, WinFS first look,
and btw, WinFS won't ship with vista,it will ship with Vista SP1 !!
and some other cool new and coming stuff, all were missed in MAD06 !!
Want a real event ? I wish you didn't miss EDC06 or EDC04 or MDC05 !!
these are real events presented by specialist and architects !!
To not get mis-understand what i mean, Microsoft is producing hundreds of
applications, so you might and (it's usual) to notice some weaknesses in
their products, where's (let's say) Sun MicroSystems doesn't develop as
5% as what Microsoft does develop, the same thing goes to Google and
IBM!! this is the FACT !! "no body can hide the sun with their hand "!!
Microsoft,(an i repeat, im not MS blinded) is the leading and #1 software
company on panet earth since ages and ages and will stay to the top of
other companies, ESPECIALLY after launching Windows Vista, and announcing
the begining of developing the all new radical-changed coming OS,
code-named "Windows Vienna" !!
And not to insult SUN by my side, Microsoft ITSELF has insulted SUN in a
complete article comparing a fancy app done with JAVA, and the vice
versa, with .NET 1.1 . SUN then, sued MS and lost it !!
MS tends to omit CODING or writing code with every new product, let's
say, in VS05 70% off code is omitted, and upcoming VS ORCAS will omit
more and more till we get an intelligent IDE that fully does what you
want in a ZERO code session!! this is what they aim to, so YES, i would
say, i won't write code and i either can't write a piece of code for a
company that will hire me [this is gonna be a reality in the upcoming
5-10 years] !!!
I hope you get a clearer idea of what's going on with MS and MAD, and if
you want any further explanation, JUST, inform me !!
Dear Murad,
thanx alot for the comments, and it was nice to find some1 getting to my post in this speedy way ;)
Again I say, It was all about the people not the technology, and as u mentioned, the level wasn't appealing at all.... coz I was at EDC, and I dunno how it was. cause by the end of the day the technology is a matter of tastes for the developers.
Thanx again murad for the comments, and it made things even clearer for the reader.
about Evangelists, muhieddin is, but those speakers weren't .. so i'll keep the title as is, cause im talking about them not muhieddin sha3ban, nor kheriddin....
Congratulations for having such a count of silly marketing antibodies! I agree with you, and I also had the experience of feeling offended by the gratuitous bashing dropped at some Microsoft's events, but this could actually happen at any others company events. I am thinking of a Mac user group in Canada I once heard of, that used to destroy PCs with hammers in their meetings! It happens all the time in events from Sun, Oracle, Open Source, etc. (people bash Microsoft, off course). I am thinking also that maybe the way the Oracle event you referred to was the way it was (they probably praised Open Source) because it just was on their benefit. Unfortunately this is the way the world seems to be: 90% of the people walking on the streets have no clue why they do what they do.
But if you really want to talk to truly smart people you have to jump layers of silly marketing. Fortunately a company like Microsoft has thousands of developers talking directly with people like you on their blogs.
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