Uh, ASP.NET existed long before RoR. If you're talking about MVC specifically, then maybe it was inspired by RoR, which could account for the similarity, although I've never heard that before. Regardless it doesn't matter as both frameworks use the same common MVC pattern that goes WAY back.

Ignore pretty much every add-on. Visual Studio doesn't need them.

I'm trying to think why you would find RoR easier for web dev. In my mind, RoR and ASP.NET MVC are basically the same thing.

Javascript is rapidly becoming ubiquitous too. So many libraries for web work (Jquery/mobile, Angular, Knockout) and you can develop Windows 8 apps with it as well now.

What I had to do to set up a Ruby on Rails dev environment was probably quadruple the complexity of what I have to do to set up a C# dev environment on a Windows machine.

I feel exactly the opposite, lol. I hate going from Visual Studio to ANY other IDE.

I disagree. I find that the .NET framework encapsulates a lot of complexity and makes it easy to ramp up to developing functional applications very quickly. Sure, you can understand what's going on under the covers, but it's not really necessary to start with. You can pick that stuff up later and as you go along.…

I think you did a pretty good job of laying it out as an "it depends" type of scenario, because it really does depend on your goals. If you want gainful employment as quick as possible, I would recommend Java or C# (I lean towards C# but I'm biased).

Oh hey. You're right about the recurring events and alarm stuff. That's definitely annoying, and needs to be fixed pronto for this to be useful in a lot of situations. I don't agree about the interface for creating new events. I hate the standard Android calendar's interface, and to me this is an improvement over…

Why? It has correctly synced all of my various Google calendars and appointments. It also reminded me of my meeting this morning. Seems fine so far.

I just tried it out this morning. It functions well and is nice to look at from my perspective.

Finally! A calendar for Android that doesn't look like it rolled off a Windows Mobile 6 device.

I have to be honest, my iPhone 4s was the first smartphone I bought that I didn't feel I needed to upgrade before my two year agreement ended. It worked great and I would have kept it longer if I wasn't itching to try the newest Android platform again. I just went to the Moto X and I'm hoping it will fair similarly.

The stuff that comes directly into my inbox I check as it arrives. The stuff that rules push off into other tabs I check once every couple of days or so.

I know this is actual good advice, but I can't help that my first thought was, "Uhhh... Here's you're new PS4, bro. I... uh... "tested" it just to make sure it works. Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, and Killzone were all freaking spectac... I mean all tested nominally."

It used to be sitting around and socializing while dinner was being cooked, but now that I've cultivated quite a bit of culinary prowess over the years, I'm kind of frustrated with the way I see certain dishes being prepared. I'm forbidden from jumping in, so I sit here and complain about it on Lifehacker instead, lol.

You're definitely on the right track looking to organize your bookmarks outside of your browser. I really like Pocket as a read it later service, but for more long term storage of bookmarks, Springpad is my go to. It's a more visual interface and it handles this task fairly well. It is going to take a fair amount of…

I am not nearly as anti-piracy as you are, but at least we can agree on this. This doesn't even skirt the boundaries of piracy.

For sure. It would be no big deal to put a check in the upgrade installation for this.

That energy tab is helpful too. Damn, Chrome! Y u use so much power!?!?