But, in "Git repo", what the heck is a "repo"? A repossession as in repossessing a car?
In the OP with "Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming", what is ALM -- air launched missile? What do air launched missiles and "farming" have to do with Visual Studio?
To Bill Gates and Microsoft: For my startup, I downloaded, read, indexed, and abstracted 5000+ Web pages from the Microsoft Web site MSDN. That took many months. Then I typed in the software for my startup, 24,000 programming language statements in Visual Basic .NET 4 and ADO.NET (Active Data Objects, for getting to the relational data base management system SQL Server) and ASP.NET (Active Server Pages, for building Web pages) in 100,000 lines of typing. For that work, all of it that was unique to me and my startup was fast, fun, and easy.
Far and away the worst problem in my startup, that delayed my work for YEARS, was the poor quality of the technical writing in the Microsoft documentation.
Some of the worst of the documentation was for SQL Server: Gee, I read the J. Ullman book on data base quickly and easily while eating dinner at the Mount Kisco Diner. But the Microsoft documentation was clear as mud. Just installing SQL Server ruined my boot partition: SQL Server would not run, repair, reinstall, or uninstall, and I had to reinstall all of Windows and all my applications and try again, more than once.
Quickly I discovered that documentation of logins, users, etc. were a mess: Basically the ideas seemed to be old capabilities, attributes, authentication, and access control lists, but nothing from Microsoft was any help at all. Eventually via Google searches I discovered some simple SQL statements, I could type into a simple file and run with the SQL Server utility SQLCMD.EXE; that way I got some commands that worked for much of what I needed. Now those little files are well documented and what I use. For getting a connection string that worked, again the documentation was useless, and I tried over and over with every variation I could think of until, for no good reason, I got a connection string to work. Once I tried to get a new installation of SQL Server to recognize, connect to, and use a SQL Server database from the previous installation of that version of SQL Server, but the result just killed the installation of SQL Server.
Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, far and away the worst problem in my startup is making sense out of Microsoft's documentation. I found W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis fast, fun, and easy reading; Microsoft's documentation was an unanesthetized root canal procedure -- OUCH!
So, again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, please, Please, PLEASE, for the sake of my work, Microsoft, and computing, PLEASE get rid of undefined terms and acronyms in your technical writing. Get them out. Drive them out. Out. Out of your writing. Out of your company. Out of computing. No more undefined terms and acronyms, none, no more. I can't do it. You have to do it. Then, DO IT.
My point is, shouldn't articles define or at least give lines to definitions for terms?
Apparently Google has discovered that their usual keyword/phrase search of Web pages should be set aside when a search is really for some jargon or and acronym and to do a special search, just for definitions, for such terms. So, if Google understands the crucial importance of unwinding jargon and acronyms, the rest of us in computing can also.
This would create a lot of noise for the regular readers of his blog, who already know the definitions of these terms. The terms are not even obscure. This is also a blog, not a piece of technical documentation.
But, in "Git repo", what the heck is a "repo"? A repossession as in repossessing a car?
In the OP with "Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming", what is ALM -- air launched missile? What do air launched missiles and "farming" have to do with Visual Studio?
To Bill Gates and Microsoft: For my startup, I downloaded, read, indexed, and abstracted 5000+ Web pages from the Microsoft Web site MSDN. That took many months. Then I typed in the software for my startup, 24,000 programming language statements in Visual Basic .NET 4 and ADO.NET (Active Data Objects, for getting to the relational data base management system SQL Server) and ASP.NET (Active Server Pages, for building Web pages) in 100,000 lines of typing. For that work, all of it that was unique to me and my startup was fast, fun, and easy.
Far and away the worst problem in my startup, that delayed my work for YEARS, was the poor quality of the technical writing in the Microsoft documentation.
Some of the worst of the documentation was for SQL Server: Gee, I read the J. Ullman book on data base quickly and easily while eating dinner at the Mount Kisco Diner. But the Microsoft documentation was clear as mud. Just installing SQL Server ruined my boot partition: SQL Server would not run, repair, reinstall, or uninstall, and I had to reinstall all of Windows and all my applications and try again, more than once.
Quickly I discovered that documentation of logins, users, etc. were a mess: Basically the ideas seemed to be old capabilities, attributes, authentication, and access control lists, but nothing from Microsoft was any help at all. Eventually via Google searches I discovered some simple SQL statements, I could type into a simple file and run with the SQL Server utility SQLCMD.EXE; that way I got some commands that worked for much of what I needed. Now those little files are well documented and what I use. For getting a connection string that worked, again the documentation was useless, and I tried over and over with every variation I could think of until, for no good reason, I got a connection string to work. Once I tried to get a new installation of SQL Server to recognize, connect to, and use a SQL Server database from the previous installation of that version of SQL Server, but the result just killed the installation of SQL Server.
Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, far and away the worst problem in my startup is making sense out of Microsoft's documentation. I found W. Rudin, Real and Complex Analysis fast, fun, and easy reading; Microsoft's documentation was an unanesthetized root canal procedure -- OUCH!
So, again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, please, Please, PLEASE, for the sake of my work, Microsoft, and computing, PLEASE get rid of undefined terms and acronyms in your technical writing. Get them out. Drive them out. Out. Out of your writing. Out of your company. Out of computing. No more undefined terms and acronyms, none, no more. I can't do it. You have to do it. Then, DO IT.