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People who were fired for being flash developers came back and designed the same stuff with Ajax/JavaScript. We're still stuck with badly designed sites. At times you can just use …

Your argument makes most sense around here :)

Always find maps.nokia.com better on my iPhone. Best part is it works even in places others fail. e.g. UAE.

Odd. Every other place in Middle East is listed, except the one with the most tourist attractions. Where is Dubai?

In my opinion, just like politicians are worthy of public scrutiny, the people in power should be too. If a person's actions and views affect population, they should be known to th…

There was an old vision that machines would do the stuff for you somewhere back in the day. Sad that we've got to a point where we can make this possible but won't because we can't…

Is this the difference between US and UK market? I remember reading something different for US: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-06/tech/30250041...

Wow :) The resounding one.

Here is another market. Pakistan, India's neighbor did similar thing three months back. Good to see that as internet penetrates this region it is with a good capable browser. http:…

It is difficult to develop when rendering on all browsers is different. I do agree with him, one platform that did what we told it to. All hacks were documented. However I don't mi…

I am just curious. What .Net libraries do you find messed up?

I don't think this should even be a discussion. If it covers costs well and your solutions work, discussing this doesn't matter. I started with using .Net for a startup four years …

I am with you. I've just written powershell scripts that work in the following manner. 1. Make a dated folder and copy the new build to the folder on all servers. 2. Point IIS to t…

Sorry. My mistake. :)

Gap of about 20ms between compiled Linq2SQL and this looks enticing. I guess this can be used at hot spots with optimized SQL queries using existing LINQ2SQL entities. Definitely n…

Exactly. Initially they weren't using anything OSS but moved to HAProxy and Redis. They even help update HAProxy from time to time. http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/2669915777/power…

They are part of Bizspark program so they got free licenses. They don't even have much hardware. Important part isn't caching. You can just create HTML copies off a page and serve …

SO is the best case study of a startup scaling with .Net. Whenever I read their infrastructure stuff I cringe I am not in their team.

You are right about candidates. I had the same reaction to SEO at first. See SEO guy is partially right. It involved page load times. Larger viewstate means longer load time and th…

I remember Velocity and articles on it initially. Thanks for the help. I am looking up AppFabric now. See I prefer sticking with one flavor of tools because its easier for develope…

Thinking that would help is a mistake. Take it from someone who went to optimize SQL Server 2008 R2 to its limits. Cache framework's are absolutely necessary. The whole idea is to …

All these new frameworks are designed to work with OSS tech. So lets say some better NoSQL platform comes out, it supports OSS technologies first. .Net comes later and sometimes it…

StackOverflow's architecture these days is not just Microsoft stack. They are using Redis and whole load of other OSS tech to get things working. Here it is interesting to note tha…

Web forms were designed back somewhere around 2002 to compete with the likes of JSP etc. They still work well for their domain, which is intranet portal etc. MVC however is designe…