ALT.NET

Have you ever been asked to program something as simple as this chain lock for a door: And after it has gone through the design process, usability groups, your corporate intigration team, and any Tom, Dick, or Harry that wants to put their finger print on the project to get credit. You end up with something like this: At least it looks pretty, and functions once as intended. However every time the door opens after that it fails to work as the user would assume, and gives a false sense of security. ...

Over the past 6 months I have been trying to really quantify what it means to be using ALT.NET practices. And I can honestly say that I still honestly don’t know what it means to be an ALT.NETer. But I have come to a number of conclusions about the state of the ALT.NET community, that I wanted to share. (1) The ALT.NET Community is fractured among itself. There are too many different ways of out there of what it means to be a true ALT.NETer. There is the Test Driven Design crowd, there is the Domain Driven Design crowd, and to many other Driven Design paradigms to mention right now. Each advocate will stand up and say that their way is the only way to develop a true ALT.NET application, and all other ways are an abomination to software development. ...