Tobi + C# = T#

I just came across this little video interview over at on10.net. And I thought, sure it sounds geeky enough, let’s watch it. And I found out about this amazing Life Browser Eric Horvitz is working on. Way too cool to be true. This tool has so much potential! Cool stuff. Watch the interview!

… and yet here I am blogging about it. Kind of an oxymoron. But today is shirtless Thursday at work. Good thing I’ve got my own office.

For all of you needing a little recreation – check out Fingerskilz. Coooooool. Hang in there!

This story made me chuckle more than once. It is very well written and has a nice flow and pace.
But on the flipside – it does not fail to bring across a certain and in my eyes true message. Programmers depend more and more on visual designers and though the first release candidate is produced quite fast and “productive”, fixing the rest of the bugs seems to take longer and longer, as Click-and-Drag-Programmers seem to no longer have the knowledge and/or the patience to go throught the designer-generated code and really understand why a bug occurs.

Be warned: It is quite long, so bring some time.

The dumbing-down of programming

Part I:
Rebelling against Microsoft, “My Computer” and easy-to-use wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing.

Part II:
Returning to the source, once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?