On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:45 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:

@Murigi, thanks for the info. my opinion below :

One key factor of achieving any large scale success with anything has always been co-ordinated, organized team work....

= = This is what software firms / organizations are about.

Developers hate meetings. So some of us have to do (Business) meetings for developers otherwise they would have little business (projects) to speak of.

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

What is most ridiculous in Kenya is developers not occasionally getting together to lift each other up - skill and reputation (business) wise - resulting in few notable apps to speak off - which probably exist in many developer heads & hard drives in Kenya.

If Wesley did not have good PR skills, would never have come across him in some online publications. If Conrad was not into answering obscure developer questions online, who would have recognized his skills out there?

The above is a good example of a .Net language, though you may need to clarify about Point 1 ? . What about other languages like php, java etc? Can they also not operate under a single umbrella?

It is part of the Java / FOSS culture to engage in MS bashing. This is the reason why most .Net developers are not interested in skunkworks. Many started out as hard core FOSSists until work (not college) got them into .Net. As such many of them also work with PHP. One told me last week they have no time for types who know nothing about .Net but specialize on negative commentary about anything MS. Now, guess who is doing most enterprise (intranet and extranet) apps in Kenya today?