This is just a food for thought question to help get content into the site for the beta. Hopefully it can spur some interesting discussion. I have noticed with programming languages and environments that they tend to follow a curve that is in some ways similar to natural selection and evolution in species. Simple things tend to stay s...
Understandably the Ribbon UI doesn't suit every application, or even most of them, however I'm suprised so few developers have chosen to adopt it. Any ideas why? How much work would be involved for a fairly major application to get the new UI? ...
Object-capabilities are an amazing solution/paradigm to provide security, both flexibly and robustly. Ever since I discovered them and got to understand them, I'm bothered that there are pretty much no widely used tool using or providing them, and I'd like to lobby a bit for their adoption, possibly by either designing a system with them...
I'm one of the developers an founders of Ra-Ajax which is Open Source and Free of Charge (LGPL licensed, hosted at Google Code) and I have a lot of reasons to do what I do, which is to spend most of my time maintaining an Open Source project which I earn close to ZIP money on. Some of my intentions are that I want Open Web to win, I wan...
When one thinks of Ada, one usually thinks of avionics. What I'm interested in are some other applications of Ada? Where is it used? Are there any shipped applications written in Ada? For example, are there CRUD apps written in it? Or games? Etc. ...
I keep hearing about Rails being used by startups but have not heard of, say, Morgan Stanley using it. Is there a list somewhere of bigger companies that use Rails internally? ...
Are there any figures for its adoption in corporate environments? Does anyone know of large corporations that have adopted it for projects? ...
Is there any reliable way to check statistics for this question? I'm skeptical whether measures like Google Trends really say much but I was thinking the job market for Flex jobs might be an indicator and the market seems healthy based on Indeed Trends. I thought adoption of Adobe Flex was relatively sluggish but what I'm hearing is th...
Hello, can one consider Computational Intelligence and/or Artificial Intelligence as mainstream? or are they just "art"? Thanks ...
It's hard enough to find reliable numbers as to general adoption of the .NET framework. This questions concerns an even more specific case: what's the situation among home users? I am wondering wether .NET is a good choice for a desktop application when targetting home users? Assuming the application in question is a small-medium sized...
Hey all, final question for the market research that my graduate team is doing for new product adoptions. Thank you all for the help you have provided so far, it has been invaluable for our research. I'll publish a link to our industry white paper if anyone is interested (and it doesn't get closed). So how important are side-by-side c...
I provide a library that currently has .NET 2.0 as a pre-requisite. I'd like to go to .NET 3.5, to take advantage of LINQ, and Action delegates, and so on, but I don't want to strand too many people. Now that 4.0 is nearing release, is it time to move up to 3.5? The library works on the desktop and CF versions of the Framework. Does...
When programming a new application, one of the first choices is deciding what .NET framework to target. What portion of average folks have .NET 3.5 installed. Stated more precisely, roughly what percentage of all computer users (or North American users if that is more readily available) currently have .NET 3.5 installed. An accuracy of ...
The main website for my company is due to be completely overhauled next year as part of a major rebranding exercise. While it is expected to only require a "new lick of paint" (i.e. update CSS and imagery), it may also be the best time to look at moves towards a shift to HTML5. There are plenty of reasons why I would not want to do thi...
To convince my team mates of the usefulness of design-by-contract, I am looking for well known examples of realistic systems that were built using design by contract. Pointers to realistic, critical evaluations are appreciated. In other words: what is the best example of a system successfully built using design-by-contract? ...
It's been some time since Linq to objects has been introduced and i'm curious about it's adoption among developers. From my experience I can't say i have seen a lot of code using it for it's filtering, ordering, and grouping capabilities. Is it the same for you ? Does developers really find the style of programming it enables more con...
Hi, 1) does anyone know something about the adoption rate of WSDL 2.0? I always read that it is not widely deployed compared to WSDL 1.1 but I can't find any numbers or surveys on this. 2) And how relevant is the HTTP Binding in WSDL? How many real-world projects actually use it? It has been significantly improved in the ...