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Rockford Lhotka
Personal blog · lhotka.net/weblogprogrammingcareer
Rockford Lhotka's personal blog at lhotka.net covers programming and career. Since 2011, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Coding standards horror story”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Coding standards horror story4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-23
What Hacker News says?
Having pre-dated SOA, been heavily involved in implementing SOA, and then watched SOA die on the vine, the overriding lesson was that technologists too often focus on syntactic coupling and completely forget about semantic coupling (by far, the harder problem). For all it's highly proscribed, heavyweight, over-engineered approach, SOA could have succeeded if the focus of implementations been on the semantic coupling…
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on “SOA and the Tar Pit of Irrelevancy (2009)”Submitted Coding standards horror story as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think I need to add something to my post, because so many people are reacting badly to it. If it helps, for context, read this article: http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/WhySilverlightIsTheFuture.aspx and then maybe my takeaways #1-4 will make better sense after you see what kind of opinions are normal in .NET land.
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on “There are no .NET Developers.”Submitted Blockchain is today what XML was in 1998 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou should be able to give testers an installer package for your app without giving them the source code: http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/TestingAWinRTAppOnASurfaceRT.as...
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on “a thread”Submitted Coding standards horror story as a story · 3 points
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Submitted Sinofsky's departure gives me hope for Windows as a story · 1 points
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