Comments on: The fan syndrome

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:08:25 +0000

Some people thinks it’s loyalty. Some think that critical thinking about things you like is cognitive dissonance. Some think that’s ok in private. A while back there was a “list 5 things you don’t like about your favorite “. The you have a little cred when you sya what you like.

By: Keeper Garrett

Keeper Garrett — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:59:14 +0000

I miss the heady days of the Amiga being the industry leader. Still a big fan, but I doubt I’d convince anyone to throw out their Quad Core and pick up an A1200.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:25:45 +0000

What is interesting is that nowadays you become a proponent of something, and your instantly classed as a “fanboy” in the derogatory sense. Such a shame.

Just look at the graphic card market for such easy examples!

Always try to stay open to new idea’s, and don’t be closed off. Easy said than done of course. Thanks for the interesting blog

By: tbarker

tbarker — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:24:16 +0000

Frontline Plus

By: tbarker

tbarker — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:23:48 +0000

Frontline Plus

By: scocarter

scocarter — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:06:17 +0000

Interesting, yet outdated, blog entry. Its amazing how things have progressed in only six months. Its surprising how far behind traditional languages and platforms are beginning to fall. When productivity increases are high enough, it may not matter than you can’t “do a two phase commit”. The Rails, Grails, DJango movements are all interesting and are the basis for the next generation of software. I think we should all get used to them and admit that Spring, EJB and app server vendors have done more to complicate and harm the J2EE platform than help it.

By: scocarter

scocarter — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:05:51 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:14:43 +0000

Great post. One other aspect of this is the “hidden agenda”. Unlike sports teams who may win or loose with little real consequence for the fan, many developers have a lot to gain or loose from the adoption of a technology and will do anything to promote it (a la JBoss guys astroturfing on tss).
I like the idea of getting back to basics, showing some respect and upleveling the conversations to all of our benefit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:58:30 +0000

Why don’t you like Ruby on rails?

By: Dan Creswell

Dan Creswell — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:35:47 +0000

Nice post Cedric.
I think there’s another notable side-effect of the behaviour you describe which is that one will not, in many cases, be able to have a reasoned technical debate about the merits of one choice over another.
The implications for building quality software and/or systems, learning and advancement of our trade in general are quite staggering.