The Magic Formula to choosing the right piece of software
Throughout my career software has come and gone and trends flare up and disappear like a shadow into the night and before you know it, there's a new shiny toy sitting on your desktop. That's really what makes our industry exciting and why more and more people are getting into it every day. With that though, there is always the question of which horse do I hitch up to? Do I latch on to the cool ReactJS framework or stick with Angular? Do I move to DapperORM, NHibernate, EFx, Telerik ORM etc etc etc. The options seems endless! and most of the time they are... which is great! but also kinda sucks; how do I pick one over the other?! How do I go to my boss and get them to invest thousands of hours and dollars into a new piece of technology. Well, I've been doing this a long time, and there really is no magic formula (gotcha!) I can recall a blog post by Chris Aitchison titled: You are NOT a Software Engineer! that really resonated with me. The argument is that we ...