Technology

About 18 months ago I got really fed up about the fact that I had lost 3 SATA hard disks in the space of about four months. Fortunately no major harm done because at the time I had copies of my data all over the place. This was all managed manually but up to date enough that I never actually lost anything, although it did take a lot of time and effort to put it all back together. Perhaps I was a bit more diligent than usual after the first failure.

I have just completed an evaluation of a .NET tool. This was planned to be a review of the tool in question but I have managed to get sidetracked by what is one of the biggest debates amongst software developers. After all real developers write code – they don’t generate it. Some take this to the extreme and won’t even use third party tools or components; after all we are paid to develop software why should we pay to use someone else’s.