Comments on: Microsoft Regroups with DotNetStories.com (and a little help from me) http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me Tap my brain, drink it up. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: MichaelApproved http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-34 MichaelApproved Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:43:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-34 Fixed, thanks. Even after you pointed it out it took a while for me to catch the difference. Fixed, thanks. Even after you pointed it out it took a while for me to catch the difference.

]]> By: Manuel http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-31 Manuel Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:42:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-31 Hey mi you have another type here "an abandoned .NET Fackbook library " should be "an abandoned .NET Facebook library" Hey mi you have another type here “an abandoned .NET Fackbook library ” should be “an abandoned .NET Facebook library”

]]> By: Anon http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-25 Anon Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:56:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-25 <a href="http://www.promotinglinux.com/truth/" rel="nofollow">I have a Linux story for you here.</a> It's to bad I can't add it to DotNetStories.com. I have a Linux story for you here. It’s to bad I can’t add it to DotNetStories.com.

]]> By: MichaelApproved http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-24 MichaelApproved Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:48:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-24 I've had my share of problems with IIS and other MS tools but people have problems with other technology as well. I've had a large Oracle DB on a sun server and EMC drives with two dedicated DBAs and my main memory was about how much of a pain it was. I actually have pretty good experience with interoperability. I run PHP/MySQL to handle http://katg.com and that gets a good amount of traffic to it. The site runs vbulletin just fine. Did you have problems integrating the software because MS was limiting or the software code you bought was? I’ve had my share of problems with IIS and other MS tools but people have problems with other technology as well. I’ve had a large Oracle DB on a sun server and EMC drives with two dedicated DBAs and my main memory was about how much of a pain it was.

I actually have pretty good experience with interoperability. I run PHP/MySQL to handle http://katg.com and that gets a good amount of traffic to it. The site runs vbulletin just fine.

Did you have problems integrating the software because MS was limiting or the software code you bought was?

]]> By: Parnell Springmeyer http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-23 Parnell Springmeyer Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-23 The issue I've had with web sites/applications being built on top of proprietary technologies isn't necessarily the lack in the technology but a lack in the ability to modify, extend, and understand what is going on. Also, Windows just plain sucks as a web server. IIS is nightmare (I've had to deal with it in the past) when trying to do anything but the Microsoft way, and the tools can get expensive. Emacs beats visual studio hands down, IMHO. LISP macros, any language under the sun, and it is open source so I can tinker with it (which I do). I had a job where they used SQL Server exclusively and a few other Microsoft technologies. It all worked very well with some cool bells and whistles, but, it only worked when done the Microsoft way, or with Microsoft tools. I also had a job (we were a PHP shop, exclusively) where the silly CEO bought some software from some dude that was built entirely on VB/IIS/SQL Server. We had to integrate it with our product which was PHP/Apache/MySQL. I won't get into the story, that statement should be enough. Microsoft's technology will never be on par with the community's because their business model depends upon LIMITING interoperability and choice. By the way, I think PHP does suck, even though it is my primary marketable skill. The language I prefer to program web applications with is Python a more powerful scripting language than anything MSFT can offer plus libraries MSFT can't beat. It's also open source. I'm not up to date on all of this, so excuse me if my information is wrong or outdated. The issue I’ve had with web sites/applications being built on top of proprietary technologies isn’t necessarily the lack in the technology but a lack in the ability to modify, extend, and understand what is going on.

Also, Windows just plain sucks as a web server. IIS is nightmare (I’ve had to deal with it in the past) when trying to do anything but the Microsoft way, and the tools can get expensive. Emacs beats visual studio hands down, IMHO. LISP macros, any language under the sun, and it is open source so I can tinker with it (which I do).

I had a job where they used SQL Server exclusively and a few other Microsoft technologies. It all worked very well with some cool bells and whistles, but, it only worked when done the Microsoft way, or with Microsoft tools.

I also had a job (we were a PHP shop, exclusively) where the silly CEO bought some software from some dude that was built entirely on VB/IIS/SQL Server. We had to integrate it with our product which was PHP/Apache/MySQL. I won’t get into the story, that statement should be enough.

Microsoft’s technology will never be on par with the community’s because their business model depends upon LIMITING interoperability and choice.

By the way, I think PHP does suck, even though it is my primary marketable skill. The language I prefer to program web applications with is Python a more powerful scripting language than anything MSFT can offer plus libraries MSFT can’t beat. It’s also open source.

I’m not up to date on all of this, so excuse me if my information is wrong or outdated.

]]> By: MichaelApproved http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-22 MichaelApproved Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:25:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-22 Sadly, yes. Thanks for pointing it out. A typo in the worst possible place... Sadly, yes. Thanks for pointing it out. A typo in the worst possible place…

]]> By: MichaelApproved http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-21 MichaelApproved Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:05:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-21 I updated the article based on your feedback. In the past when I've used PHP it was really frustrating trying to track down bugs. Looking again I see there some good possibilities out there. I'll checkout Netbeans and experiment with other IDEs again. It'll be nice to have an easier way to code PHP, thanks for pointing them out. I updated the article based on your feedback. In the past when I’ve used PHP it was really frustrating trying to track down bugs. Looking again I see there some good possibilities out there. I’ll checkout Netbeans and experiment with other IDEs again. It’ll be nice to have an easier way to code PHP, thanks for pointing them out.

]]> By: The Truth Hurts http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-20 The Truth Hurts Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:01:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-20 Nice retraction. Thanks. Perhaps accuracy is higher on your list than I thought. Nice retraction. Thanks. Perhaps accuracy is higher on your list than I thought.

]]> By: The Truth Hurts http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-19 The Truth Hurts Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:37:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-19 "With PHP, never mind the lack of step-through debugging, if you want to do any kind of debugging you have to litter your code with tons of print statements to have any shot of catching the bug. Ugly." Um....WRONG. There are many, many step through debuggers out there for PHP. Netbeans, for example, has extremely good (and free) step through debugging, along with many more features that are at least on par with what Visual Studio gives you. If your intent is to give accurate and honest information, you should probably research your topic a bit. However, given the overall tone of the article, I'll wager honesty and accuracy were never really high on your list. “With PHP, never mind the lack of step-through debugging, if you want to do any kind of debugging you have to litter your code with tons of print statements to have any shot of catching the bug. Ugly.”

Um….WRONG. There are many, many step through debuggers out there for PHP. Netbeans, for example, has extremely good (and free) step through debugging, along with many more features that are at least on par with what Visual Studio gives you.

If your intent is to give accurate and honest information, you should probably research your topic a bit. However, given the overall tone of the article, I’ll wager honesty and accuracy were never really high on your list.

]]> By: mister b. http://michaelapproved.com/articles/microsoft-regroups-with-dotnetstores-com-and-a-little-help-from-me#comment-18 mister b. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:14:00 +0000 http://michaelapproved.com/?p=42#comment-18 you mean dotnetSTORIES, not STORES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you mean dotnetSTORIES, not STORES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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