Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 20th November 2007 09:03

Hello Carrie,

On 19 Nov 2007 22:55:51 -0000, Carrie wrote
> Gary Short wrote:
> > Ah cool, so not based on the current product set then?
>
> No I have done some work with .NET and C# a couple of years ago,
> but I wasn't very impressed - better yes - but still rather
> emcumbered, and obfusticated.

Seriously? You feel C# and the .Net framework are more "encumbered
and "obfuscated" than PHP?

> > Just out of interest, what world do you think I inhabit?
> >
>
> One where you have the time to discuss academic questions like this!

When you work on one of the world's largest web sites for genealogical
information (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/) or, as I'm doing now, a
credit risk modelling system for a major high street bank, scaleability is
not an "academic question" its number one on the list of non functional
requiremenets. For example, it was the inability of Northern Rock customers
to gain online access to their account information that helped to fuel the
run on the bank. Scalability is very much in the forefront of my customer's
minds.

> Hang on - in an otherwise diposable society where a new technology
> will be available next week - why bother?

Because if customers can't get onto your site then they can't spend their
money and your turnover drops. It'd be like shutting a bricks and mortar
shop and lunchtime every day.

> In a freelancer world you usually only get asked to update something
> long after the last person who did it left, at which point the
> re-usability of the original code is totally irrelavant, even if
> they did have the faintest clue.

I guess it all depends on the type of clients you have, its horses for
courses really.

> Just out of interest how many years have you been in the business?

17.

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Gary Short
http://www.garyshort.org