Comments on: my love hate relationship with .NET development http://www.seebq.com/2005/techno-babble/my-love-hate-relationship-with-net-development the shameless self promotional site of Charles Brian Quinn Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Jonathan LaCour http://www.seebq.com/2005/techno-babble/my-love-hate-relationship-with-net-development#comment-39 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.seebq.com/2005/techno-babble/my-love-hate-relationship-with-net-development#comment-39 Really? You find development in .NET to be easy, agile, and fast? My experience is exactly the opposite... especially for web applications. ASP.NET pales in comparison to the more dynamic and agile solutions available (Rails, Django, Seaside and the like). On the other hand, I also have been working on a few desktop apps in .NET, and while I think its cumbersome, over-designed, and complicated -- there isn't anything better for Windows desktop development. One day you will see the Python light CBQ :) Really? You find development in .NET to be easy, agile, and fast?

My experience is exactly the opposite… especially for web applications. ASP.NET pales in comparison to the more dynamic and agile solutions available (Rails, Django, Seaside and the like).

On the other hand, I also have been working on a few desktop apps in .NET, and while I think its cumbersome, over-designed, and complicated — there isn’t anything better for Windows desktop development.

One day you will see the Python light CBQ :)

]]> by: seebq http://www.seebq.com/2005/techno-babble/my-love-hate-relationship-with-net-development#comment-40 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.seebq.com/2005/techno-babble/my-love-hate-relationship-with-net-development#comment-40 Perhaps I am enamored with the IDE -- even Eclipse or the Zend IDE (for PHP) pales in comparison to the ease of VS in writing and deploying code. You have to admit Microsoft has that down. I mean, I'm not above hacking code in vim, (and I do), but it is so fabulous to drag and drop a datagrid, plug in an xml file, do tab-completion, then write a few lines in C#, and hit the little "debug" button, then check all the code back into my sourcesafe repo -- and did I mention I'm developing on a pocketpc mobile phone, with a full-on emulator that works amazing -- and can debug on the device? Yes, I agree with the Windows statement -- on Windows and Windows Mobile for sure, there is no other way to slang code. Designing for the web -- now that's another story. Now, if I could only figure out how to compile in pgsql support for php5, do my mod_rewrites in apache2, and get my subversion webDAV over ssl working.... ;-) Perhaps I am enamored with the IDE — even Eclipse or the Zend IDE (for PHP) pales in comparison to the ease of VS in writing and deploying code. You have to admit Microsoft has that down. I mean, I’m not above hacking code in vim, (and I do), but it is so fabulous to drag and drop a datagrid, plug in an xml file, do tab-completion, then write a few lines in C#, and hit the little “debug” button, then check all the code back into my sourcesafe repo — and did I mention I’m developing on a pocketpc mobile phone, with a full-on emulator that works amazing — and can debug on the device?

Yes, I agree with the Windows statement — on Windows and Windows Mobile for sure, there is no other way to slang code. Designing for the web — now that’s another story. Now, if I could only figure out how to compile in pgsql support for php5, do my mod_rewrites in apache2, and get my subversion webDAV over ssl working…. ;-)

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