1 hour ago, Cybermagell​an wrote

Seriously it's depressing to get an interview for a Senior Developer position, and when they ask "What happens on page postback?", and I say "Unfortunately I don't write in that manner" and I hear "Oh, um, hmm, well that's how you do it in .NET"

Sounds like that company might not be the right fit for you, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss writing code "in that manner" if it's a job requirement, despite being an older technology. You'd just have to learn it if you wanted that job.

I feel like I'm in the minority because I actually like web forms, despite my recent work with MV*. It provides a convenient, encapsulated object/event model to very RAPIDLY deliver solutions for a certain lob class of applications.

Web forms allowed an entire generation of small/medium businesses to leverage their existing VB6 skills and enter the web space and for the companies I've worked for, they've been wildly successful. I had a non-technical boss tell me once that the only true measure of software quality is if the company is making money using it.

The best Surface adverts I've seen so far are the simple "man on the street" adverts with the guy who actually EXPLAINS FEATURES. I watch that commercial and say 'Yeah, I could use that'.

http://imgur.com/gallery/hTc7eZN

Take a look here:

http://lamahashim.blogspot.com/2010/03/disabling-network-using-c.html

IIRC, this worked for UDP, but was not needed for my purposes because UDP gave me the DropMulticastGroup().

i like the option to now use chrome as debug browser with the live css toggle options/previews. also check out twitter bootstrap for fluid, responsive layouts that look good on tablets, desktops and phones. the framework is pretty amazing and easy to wrap your head around.

I can only assume they offer better economies for general hosting when you get past a certain scale.

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. It's interesting to see who people are actually using.

Mostly good reviews on the webhosting forums. Their Eco-2 unmanaged tier looks like it'll satisfy my needs at around $300/yr. That's not too expensive considering I'd be killing my dropbox account in favor of my own "My Documents" folder sync of less than 10GB... that's really the only thing i use dropbox for (if I ever got serious and had paying customers I would not use the server for personal backup).

I looked at azure and amazon but they get ridiculously expensive quickly. I do like the nice interface and extras with amazon (not to mention the full-use free tier.. azure should really offer something like this!). If you're serious about big scale then it'd be the way to go, but not for me.

I've seen the microsoft web hosting referral site, but I'm looking for real world unfiltered/unbiased anecdotal evidence from real developers... and real numbers of hits per day without throttling. the number of fake reviews on "PR" sites is unbelievable and makes it hard to find real reviews.

My needs are Windows 2008 R2, Sql Express, at least 1 external IP, ability to host as many domains as i want, full trust, 2GB+, 50GB+, lots of transfer.

...or would I be better off just investing in a small box and self host out of my garage? Does anybody do this?

22 minutes ago, Jim Young wrote

The important thing in my mind is to have a distinct and isolated layer where database access occurs and marshals the data up to the POCO classes.

I think this is where I'm leaning... something like a distinct ViewModel layer containing my "client-safe" classes (almost the same as my DAL POCOs but with actual List<ViewModelPoco>, sans id's or other private sensitive info) and manually build up the state of my complex ViewModel step-by-step in each ViewModelPoco class constructor, by selecting out the "children" FK List<ViewModelPoco>. I know there are libraries like valueinjector to assist in merging the POCO values onto the ViewModelPoco values.

53 minutes ago, ScanIAm wrote

Plus, it's wasteful of bandwidth to bring along all that data if it isn't absolutely necessary for the UI.  You want to display a subset of what's in the POCO, so only transmit that.

I've been reading up on angular.js and that framework promises 2-way databinding on complex JSON. I think the amount of data transmitted would be offset by the fact I'll be dealing with a relatively "fat" client. A lot of multi-step stuff would be happening only in the browser, then submitting everything at the end in one post. (I know this is not REST).

Now obviously FK fields in the db schema should translate into List<POCO> in the "parent" object... so imagine an object with properties, including Lists of an object with properties, including Lists of an object with properties, etc...

Is there an end-to-end solution for this scenario? I guess I'm interesting in hearing strategies on how to best maintain that relationship database to browser and back again.

seriously though, if it were found that people organically produce cyclical values of traded commodities (even tiny variances) would that not be a perpetual money making machine? and isn't that kind of the point to all the analysis business schools teach? find these patterns and exploit them? or is that graph not organic, rather evidence of the actual fraud they were committing? and if so, shouldn't there be some statistical bot looking for these kinds of shenanigans?

1) no plug-in (assuming all browsers implement their optimizations)
2) promises of ~1/2 native performance
3) already runs everywhere
4) vendor neutral

regarding ea.. that's just bad business. the tech can still be used for "good". i was thinking more about lob applications for the enterprise. imagine all those existing, boring business apps built on .net that just push data around could now run happily in everyone's browser without a plugin? i'd buy into that. 

after reading a bit more, it looks like gc is a challenge so you can't quite compile to asm.js directly from c# just yet.

if asm.js takes off as the pseudo-assembly of the web, would it be feasible to get the clr virtual machine running in the browser too?

edit* now that i think about it, a cool T4 project would be to automatically generate POCO deserialization classes from actual JSON. That could make working with restful JSON services a little easier.

can you execute any asp script using that Server.Execute() just to eliminate the python aspect of the problem?

maybe your app pool identity needs to be in iis_iusr group (total guess there).

sony has always been a hardware company with software added on to support that hardware while ms comes from the opposite direction.

as consumers start to expect more and more out of that big expensive box that sits in the living room, ms will be in a better position to meet all those demands... the entertainment streaming, cloud storage, social integration, ui (including kinekt which i believe will eventually become the main interface for "os" interactions) and just overall user experience is going to be much better on the nextbox because that is all in the software and the infrastructure/experience to support it.

i'm not saying sony has bad software people, but they can't compete with ms. ps4 hardware may very well be better than the nextbox in every way, but i think the "os" and supporting eco-system will be more important for the majority of consumers as long as the hardware is good enough to be considered next gen.

If in doubt, just ask... I'm sure the first tier folks would verify if your issue was within scope.

to answer the question about reproducing in the non-prod environment... i think this is a gray area. some things are impossible to reproduce especially if there is a load component or "you simply don't know" component to the issue.

the who is the app pool identity running under?

*edit*

also, which user are you intending to have access to the shared drive? the impersonated end-user? network service? the app pool identity? you have to decide this first and verify those permissions on the shared folder. if your intention is the impersonated end-user you may have to set up delegation/kerberos for multi-hop credential passing.

you could even rent session time on the ui designer!

j/k... i'm sure there's some silly legal reason why you can't do this.

still $999 to get visual studio support though... i wish they would adopt a licensing model like unreal sdk. you can use it for free and you only pay royalties if your app nets certain $ thresholds.