I highly recommend the Earthsea book by Ursula Le Guin (I actually recommend all of her books) and the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Frtiz Lieber. Especially if you are looking for something that is a quick read and not a 20 book, 50 billion page series.

Also the Drizzt novels by R. A. Salvatore, while not the same level of quality, are fun.

Also, from an enterprise point-of-view, .Net has the same advantages as Java (stability, runs everywhere, backed by a large corp) but is fundamental better designed and doesn’t come with the potential legal baggage of being owned by Oracle.

I would argue that .Net is one of the best techs that Microsoft is producing at the moment. I’ve used it on and off for a number of years and haven’t done any development targeting Windows in a decade. It’s all be running on Linux servers. The dotNet works great there.

And, 100% agree with using Rider. My hierarchy of .Net IDEs is Rider->Notepad+±>Visual Studio Code->manually adjusting the memory on my computer using magnets->Full Visual Studio (whatever they are calling it these days).

Bah. Obviously fake. Lincoln was sitting in a balcony to the side of the stage. Not directly in front of it.

Good idea. Thanks for the update and for not just being reactionary anti-Meta. As much as I personally feel they should be defederated simply because of who they are, I’m glad you are running the site in a more sophisticated manner.

I’ve done the intern thing before but I didn’t think about it this time. I’m going to check on that.

Definitely a good suggestions in general. I did talk to everyone and the consensus was pro-mechanical keyboard but only if they are quiet. So I’m more looking for things to propose to people rather forcing them to use them.

The workshop idea is nice but, at the moment, we are a small company with more money than time. So there wasn’t a lot of interest in DIY route at the moment.

Oooh. Nice. Thanks for the recommendation!

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