Long live to GotDotNet

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From one of the developers behind GDN:

Btw, Did i tell you how cool and powerful .Net is and the way it lends itself to building reliable production quality applications.

It's absolutely new to me that a platform by itself "lends" to such reliable and production quality applications. I thought you had to study, read patterns for reliable software design, test and design for performance from the start...
Judging from these words, it seems I've been using a site that isn't GDN... and all those badly designed, buggy, slow-as-a-dog, prototype-quality (at best) .NET apps I see every now and then are just an illusion...

If I only new I didn't need to study so much to build reliable production quality apps!

3 Comments

  • Amen to that, brother. GDN was an early site I participated in when there was nothing else out there, but it didn't take long to get bogged down by its crappy code. Going on three years without any significant improvements.



    And can you say __VIEWSTATE? :)

  • With all due respect to the folks that developed GDN, it sucks. I have seen countless number of times where the script has actually timed out. It's almost like Sun's response to the poor performance of their Pet Shop app. It's a reference implementation that isn;t optimized for speed. Duh.

  • GDN doesn't exactly have the best user experience around indeed.

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