All of you who have had the (dis)pleasure of working to my coding standards [it’s good to be the king] are sure to get a chuckle out of this.  As of today I have officially given into peer pressure and moved my Curly Braces to their own line!  Since I’ve been working in C# (wow… 7 years now) I’ve been fighting to keep my curlys on the same line as the opening structure

If (true) { 
   //do something 
} else { 
   // do else 
}

I just don’t have the strength anymore to fight the good fight (and besides I want to join the Kewl Kids). This one is for you Jonathan!

If (true) 
{ 
   //do something 
} 
else 
{ 
   // do else 
}

Wow, I’ve always said that competition is a wonderful thing (in a well regulated environment of course [I’m not a libertarian / non-realistic idealist]), and watching Microsoft over the past 3 years has been a real eye opener to the power of competition in thought!  I HIGHLY doubt that the MS of 10, or even 5, years ago would have been able to embrace open source, community driven development if it weren’t for the pressure that Google has brought to bear on the development world.

Now if Apple would get on the band wagon, I think computer technology could really begin to SOAR!

Check out this link to Microsoft ditching it’s proprietary Ajax solution and climbing onboard with all resources the jQuery community!

(please note, the post is over a month old, I forgot to push it up, better late then never)

Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating