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For somone who has expertise in PHP and not Razor/ASPX views Phalanger might be a great middle ground. This is an integration of PHP and .NET. Always great to see another language join the .NET club

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Ironically, there are too many people predicting the “end of the world”. For Windows 8 Metro style UI doesn’t make sense if you are developing business applications or using a non-touch interface computer. Windows 8 allows to disable Metro UI (and by that also disables applications that are Metro UI applications) and puts UI into the “conventional” Window 7 look and feel. Registry key for explorer can allow you switching between Desktop and Metro UIs as mentioned in this blog post. So end of the world is postponed to some later days folks.

Recent announcements for Windows 8 development is not including JavaScript with HTML5 has opened up Windows development for more developers. I wanted to see where testing for JavaScript is standing and was surprised at the variety of frameworks out there. Back in the days when I was trying to do web testing with WatiN, it was painful, especially when a browser had to be loaded for those tests. My interest was around JavaScript testing w/o need to load a browser. QUnit looked very good, but it still required an actual browser. Also, in a CI scenario, I wanted to be able to use a command line/tool execution style.

It’s 5772 New (Jewish) Year tomorrow. I wish everyone Shana Tova.

In general, NIHS (Not Invented Here Syndrome) is a negative for your core business. Trying to re-invent something that already exists and probably does the job 10 times better. But what happens when an existing tool doesn’t do it better, or it is not customizable to your business, or it’s something that you’d pay wa-a-a-y too much just to use a fraction of what it can?

First impression is always important. I have decided to install Windows 8 in a virtual environment. Even though running it “natively” on a hardware is a better experience, I still wanted to see how well the hardware requirement was slimed down. Also, I have a very old idea of working in a VM box only, but it was always not a simple goal to achieve with Windows and Visual Studio being such a RAM / recourses pigs. This time around things looked very…. impressing.

A few years ago I have blogged about Singletonitis. Another place, different people, yet the same problem appears again – singletonitis. The issues I have outlined back then where