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Having been a commercial software developer for 17 years and a hobbyist for about 6 years before that, I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly of software development. My journey has taken me from BASIC to PASCAL to C to C++ and now to C#. I hate to reinvent the wheel and will always reuse other peoples' code where I can.

The coding side of the job has lost its interest for me and I much prefer to work on the business analysis and design side now. Although I still get a kick out of a little R+D and I have had a lot of fun playing with MyXaml over the last year. The greatest pleasure still comes from seeing the final product in use and how it helps my clients run their businesses better.

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I've been watching the new series of the cartoon 'Clone Wars'[^].

And I've come to the conclusion that George Lucas was right and the fan-boys really don't know anything about good story-telling.

Most of the disappoint that "fanboys" feel towards the prequel trilogy is that they really wanted three movies of full on "Jedi Action". However I think the 'Clone Wars' has proved how boring that really is.

Watching Anakin slicing and dicing his way through droid armies is just not interesting. Not to mention how the cartoon portrays Jedi like Mace and Yoda as "supermen", single handedly wiping out thousands of the enemy. I know it is a cartoon but it just comes across as far-fetched.

I think the problem is the new extended format of the show. The 3 minute cartoons had a much better structure to them. The new 30 minute episodes are so laden down with meaningless action that the story gets lost.

'Attack of the Clones' suffered from a similar problem with its clone/droid fights. They just don't have the heart and soul of the Episode IV attack on the death-star or the 'Battle of Hoth'.

I still believe Episode III will have the emotional core I'm looking for in the fights, but the Clone Wars cartoon doesn't do it for me at all.

Michael

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