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Microsoft LightSwitch – Championing the Citizen Developer

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Posted by paul.patterson on January 5, 2012 – 10:30 am
Filed under .NET, LightSwitch, Productivity

I recently watched a great webcast by Rich Dudley in which Rich made some very interesting points about what Gartner Research calls “Citizen Developers”. I was immediately intrigued by this Gartner information so I dug a little deeper into this citizen developer thing, and here is what I found…

According to Gartner, “Citizen developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014…”.  That, according to the report titled “Citizen Developers Are Poised to Grow”.

Represented by about 6 million information workers, these “latent” application developers make up that same Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch target market.

Very interesting, indeed!

 

 

Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-championing-the-citizen-developer/

Software Architecture – MVVM Design Pattern Primer

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Posted by paul.patterson on August 23, 2011 – 10:54 am
Filed under Software Architecture

Building a new car requires the input of both a design team and an engineering team. Each team contributes to specific requirements. For example, the design team is responsible for understanding what the consumer wants in the look and feel of the car. The engineering team applies the required mechanics and functionality to the car. Both teams serve distinct purposes, however both teams need to eventually come together to produce what we will eventually drive down the road. Read More »

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