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Did you know where the C# name come from? I didn’t
According to wikipedia: “The name “C sharp” was inspired from musical notation where a sharp indicates that the written note should be made a half-step higher in pitch“.

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I read a lot of blogs, mostly technical ones. IMHO it’s the best place to broaden one’s knowledge.
But I observe very different approaches in two different programming “camps”.

Open Source “camp” - very structured, often maintains well driven projects. Rather opened for the community. On blogs, one can read deep thoughts and cool ideas in comments. It’s not a perfect world but projects are developed well. Projects have their milestones, one can participate if he feels skilled enough. Documentations grow very fast and at some stage it is possible to use a program or library.

Microsoft “camp” - or rather people who work there, sometimes MVP’s. It’s so called “mutual friendly society”. Each blog looks very similar to one another. People have many crazy ideas, often very good and acceptable. But there are things that piss me off.
Every project or feature is in fact very simple thing - like “we have just added ‘get latest version on checkout’ in TFS CTP 43523424.1432123 version”. And comments like “Oh, you’re great”, “You rule, man”. Rest of comment’s are “pingbacks”. The most funny thing is that when somebody tries to criticize any idea or a project the comment is just not approved by “almighty” owner. Many projects released as CTP or presented as screencasts are just unusable. Many of them are bloated with so many unused features. But everything looks great, many screenshots, only “wow” and “it’s amazing”.
I personally am more and more dissapointed when many good ideas are wrapped in shitty piece of paper. For example, LINQ to SQL - introduced as something amazing but in fact, it’s only a poor version of Java’s Hibernate. I think that in 5 years it should be able to operate on something more complicated than “Northwind” database.