The proverbial “bleeding edge” of technology has always fascinated me and for the most part has been very captivating for me. I spend a lot of time there. In fact too much time. So recently, as recent as a few days ago, I decided that I am changing my policies.
Wouldn’t life be a little less hectic without all the bugs? How about incompatibilities? Performance?
Yeah, its an epiphany of sorts for me. I love the edge, its addicting. But at the end of the day customers just want the code to work, and be reliable.
So here is the change.
I am not totally giving up research, and I am not saying I wouldn’t implement a cutting edge solution for a customer if that’s what it takes to get the job done. But I am saying that we are going to ease off the throttle a bit and find a cruising speed.
Case in point: WPF and .net 3.5 are really cool, and the business case is really valid. The learning curve isn’t even significant. But for our business Win Forms is still the best choice. The reason is performance and deployment. And I just always spend too much time re-engineering stuff to stay on the edge. I know its very compatible and that WPF apps play well with Win Forms and their controls. But I like to keep things lean, and mean, and most of all clean.
I don’t want to switch over to the new way yet, and I don’t want to mix everything up.
It reminds me of the time when I was switching from COM to .Net. It was really a big step for me. Two IDE’s? Does the new IDE do everything the old one did? How does that affect my productivity?
Ok I guess this qualifies as ranting. So I apologize.
Back to work.