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Looking cool may make you look stupid.......

I have spent the last couple of months pulling my hair out on a project.  This project is an example of how not to architect a project.  First lesson:

Do NOT try and create your own version of ASP.NET.  You are not as smart as Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, IBM, or other technology companies.  You do not have the resources to invest millions of dollars no matter how smart you think you are and how simple the idea is.  If you get it running in 90% of the cases, that is not good enough.  It has to work in 100% of the time, given normal input.  Instead of trying to create your own version of ASP.NET, use ASP.NET.

Wally

Comments

SBC said:

I have seen it too often, a lot of developers have a "take on the world" mind-set which is often disasterous:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0112769/2003/09/23.html#a286
# September 30, 2003 9:59 AM

Frans Bouma said:

It might surprise you, but ASP.NET is created by 2 people. It is not wonderglue that takes thousands of programmers to get it up and running. It will take time, true, but a team with 3 or 4 people can do it. It's of course another thing if that's time well spent :)
# September 30, 2003 10:57 AM

TrackBack said:


Alan Dean
# September 30, 2003 5:57 PM

Doug Thews said:

I agree. Sometimes we are way too consumed by the infrastructure behind something instead of concentrating on solving the business problem that helps make us (or keeps us) profitable.
# September 30, 2003 10:04 PM
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