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Hannah Montana: ASP.net Web Forms & MVC in 3D
At my current day job at Getty Images, we're currently developing a new web application in ASP.net MVC. On the whole, it's pretty cool and it allows one to avoid many of the shortcomings of poorly designed web forms apps. Unfortunately, my real estate web app code base isn't new (and I think its design improves every time I check something in).
The dilemma I'm facing is should I rewrite my decent & improving ASP.net web forms app as an ASP.net MVC app? Sure, ASP.net MVC better supports TDD and custom view engines, but I'm not quite sure that's enough...
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Return of a Jedi
It was a long, long time ago… It was a time of a great civil war between the Outlook/Office and the Exchange teams… It was a time of great browser wars and much uncertainty... It was an era in which ancient languages such as C++ ruled the galaxy and web browsers weren't considered application development platforms.
It was during this time, I had the opportunity to work on a product that would help redefine web based e-mail and more importantly define what web applications were capable of. I was one of the first developers on the Outlook Web Access...
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Best ASP.net Interview Question Ever (Part 2)
Last time, I whined about ASP.net byte bloat. As long as I'm bitching about Microsoft's internet platform, I might as well hold nothing back.
Microsoft doesn't care enough about Internet Explorer. It is the red headed step child of Microsoft's internet platform. MS seriously lost a lot of client side credibility and goodwill by disbanding the Windows IE team for 3+ years after Windows XP / IE 6 shipped and letting the Mozilla / Firefox team catch up and surpass it.
I'm sure killing Mac IE & killing Unix IE didn't help matters either (not that anybody ever used them). Shipping...
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Best ASP.net Interview Question Ever (Part 1)
I recently I had a job interview w/ Costco Wholesale in the e-Commerce group. I thought the most interesting question they asked was "If you could change one thing about ASP.net, what would it be". It was a hard question, because on the whole, I'm pretty happy with it. Furthermore, on the whole, I'm pretty happy with the direction that Microsoft is going. However, it got me thinking about what I don't like about Microsoft's internet platform and I figured it would make a great blog post (or two), so here I go.
Viewstate + ClientID = HTML Bloat +...