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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.

Today I fixed annoying bug in EasyXML. It crashed when it was pinned to the start menu in Windows. I also added “Start with Windows” option and changed starting behavior a little bit. Now, EasyXML starts minimized.

Go to EasyXML project’s page

“Unexpected Error 0×8ffe2740 Occurred” - this message appeared today on my PC when I was trying to start IIS. A while of “googling” revealed that this is rather normal behavior of the server

According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816944 this error occurs when some other application uses port 80 (default for a web server).

Instead of expressive error message they create KB article with explanations