Grey Matter devs

[M-Zuber]

All this talk about alt.net brought up some interesting memories.
I started out as a classic black matter dev. Without much time budgeted to learning new tools, I had to use what I knew or was able to find the most understandable (to me) documentation.
When setting up my first project that used an ORM I saw things like NHibernate but was best able to understand EF so I went with that.
Since then I have learnt new tools - but only as the project forced me too, otherwise I could not justify budgeting the time.
It was one thing to get looked down on for using .Net by people outside the community, but then I joined twitter and felt similar or worse attitudes coming from people ostensibly in the same "camp" as me
"Why so mean" is something that we still very much need to work on - both internal to our community and external to other communities.