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Re: [ProgSoc] Webservers and ASP.Net



Thomas Given-Wilson wrote:
I am curious to know how many members would be interested in doing
Windows development (IIS + ASP(.NET?)/PHP/Perl/whatever) and if there is
interest we may be able to work something out.
I've been working with ASP(.NET) and IIS for years, and I'd advise 
people to steer clear. I think it's a mistake to invest in skills on 
this platform. I personally want to jump off that ship.
Classic ASP w/ JavaScript is pretty cool. ASP.NET is an *enormous* 
steaming pile of crap. IIS is buggy convoluted arcane complicated 
bloatware that doesn't do half of what you want. ASP.NET is handy for 
dynamically generated server-side graphics via IHttpHandler, but beyond 
that doesn't offer much in the way of value IMO.
If you want to program C# and ASP.NET (don't) at ProgSoc then I'd 
suggest looking at Mono [1].
On the topic of web programming platforms... I'd be interested in 
knowing about JavaScript-based server-side web programming platforms 
(other than Classic ASP on IIS). I've heard about Steve Yegge's port of 
Rails to JavaScript, but I've never seen an environment like that 'for 
real'.
[1] http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page










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