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Disclaimer: There is no particular political, or ideological, theory, system, view, etc., advocated explicitly, or implicitly, in the following words. No value-judgments are intended here. The reader is wholly responsible for their projective construal of the following words as containing any criticism, satire, snide irony, sardonic sniping, etc., towards any nation, or any person(s) within any nation. This offer may be void in your state, and local, and national, laws may apply.
With my country of origin, Corporate Occupied Mallburgerland (aka "America"), in a cataclysmic economic/political struggle over the future of the economy, with its government technically "shut down," and, on the verge of default on its debt, I am still naive enough (by choice, perhaps) to register a mild frisson of shock reading this:
"In all but two quarters since the beginning of 2011, “hair,” “eggs,” or “kidney” have been among the top four autofill results for the Google search query, “I want to sell my...,” according to Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at New York-based ConvergEx Group, which provides brokerage and trading-related services for institutional investors." [^] ...
... or, this: about young women turning to the "sugar daddy" market to make up a cash-flow deficit: [^]
From the perspective of an expat living in Asia, who has not visited his homeland in over ten years, this seems only one example of the lamentable predicament of most "western" nations with high-unemployment across-the-board, staggering unemployment percentages for younger people, decline of manufacturing and "blue-collar" jobs, astounding national debts, etc.
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Knowing that the people around me here, in the Asian country I live in, have almost no social-support systems compared to western countries doesn't mean I don't feel empathy/sympathy for anyone, in any country, who can't pay their bills for medical reasons, or is well-qualified for work, and seeking work, but unemployed, or for bright college-grads who have no job opportunities, and leave college or university with very large educational loans outstanding, and then have to move back in with their parents !
Contemplating the phenomena reported in the stories above: the mind can only boggle; the heart only whimper. Was Horace Walpole on to something when he wrote, in 1776: "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: if you are going to have to rent/sell your body-parts, best do it while they are ripe.
Now you tell me... 
There goes my retirement plan...
Will Rogers never met me.
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BillWoodruff wrote: Contemplating the phenomena reported in the stories above: the mind can only
boggle; the heart only whimper
By most realistic measures the population of the world is doing much better than compared to in the past. Things like hunger, free speech, economic possibilities, chance of experiencing violence, etc are all improving. The improvements are steady, climbing and significant.
One must avoid making general assumptions about the state of the world based on ones personal changes due to media habits, age, etc and also take into account how media itself has changed over time.
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IGHWUT[^]
Three folk shared top voting scores - so I used EDRIC (Electronic Digital Random Idiot Chooser) to select the winner - Well Done Bryce[^]
Your virtual prize is below:
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A Software Developer, Bryce
Wanted to win a prize
He didn't feel
The prize was real
But he won through a roll of the dice
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enjoy!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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oh the irony
but...on a happier note...i WON something! (albeit virtual) ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Bryce
MCAD
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Bravo! Woot, woot!!!
And here I sit, alone in a hotel in Las Vegas, not nearly drunk yet, and having won not a farthing. The shame of it all...
Will Rogers never met me.
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If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
Exceedingly good cakes
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Hopefully this doesn't count as a coding question. My boss pinged me today about considering the move from asp.net to mvc because it's supposed to be better for n-tier database and performs better then asp.net web forms.
I have absolutely no experience with or knowledge of mvc, so I thought I'd see if there was a general consensus in terms of whether or not it's a better architecture to do database intense web development with.
What are your thoughts?
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It only affects your front-end. The rest of your n-tiers are still C# and SQL.
Go with your department's expertise.
Edit: unless you need to get your resume up to date... then go with the mvc so you can match more keywords on the bot searches.
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1.Full separation of concerns with Model - View and Controller.
100% Unit Testable.
2. Light weight because there's no huge View State unlike Webforms.
3. You can have different set of views say for mobile, desktops and render them accordingly. Here comes the re-usability.
And a lot.
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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Those are actually some very good points...
However, I will say unit testing is not 100% of the code base out of the box, you can't really unit test the DB without affecting its state. You can't test the views without some form of automation.
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Pualee wrote: you can't really unit test the DB without affecting its state
That's what mocks are for.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: That's what mocks Moqs are for.
FTFY
/ravi
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Right, we use mocks (moq), but then that is not really executing all the db level stuff in the business layer, just verifying that the calls are actually made...
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This is how i test my database structure:
http://effort.codeplex.com/[^]
Quote: Effort is a powerful tool that enables a convenient way to create automated tests for Entity Framework based applications.
It is basically an ADO.NET provider that executes all the data operations on a lightweight in-process main memory database instead of a traditional external database. It provides some intuitive helper methods too that make really easy to use this provider with existing ObjectContext or DbContext classes. A simple addition to existing code might be enough to create data driven tests that can run without the presence of the external database.
Eric
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Pualee wrote: However, I will say unit testing is not 100% of the code base out of the box,
you can't really unit test the DB without affecting its state
So don't try to avoid it - just do it.
Presumably the comment is based on an idealistic view of what "unit" testing means? Myself I want my code to work so I make compromises to make sure I can test all of it in a repeatable way.
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We are in the process in making the change from Silverlight to MVC and the differences are huge, mainly because I don't have any real depth in aspx/javascript. If you already have these skills I imagine the transition should be reasonably simple.
I am continually astonished at the number of different tools needed to achieve a high level of interaction that is automatic with xaml binding.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I would think that moving from Silverlight, which is a more Flash-like and rich media oriented creature, to the more html oriented world of asp.net or mvc would be challenging on any numbe of levels.
I really miss native development. I can't believe that in two decades, the best we've been able to do with a global TCP/IP network is application development housed in an amped up document reader. The web browser was never intended to be a serious development environment.
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Why?
I look at the browser as a portal. Nothing but a window to interact with something else.
The good, is no matter what "window" (browser) and what "house" (OS/equipment) you have, you will interact with the same thing.
The bad. The "window" builder sometimes mess up and the view you get from it get's distorted and sometimes unuseable.
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Considering the power of native client development, the Windows API, the stateless nature of html (and the workarounds that have emerged to compensate), etc., it's a very, very weak environment.
Html was developed as a markup and linking language, i.e. a way to display a document and link to the next one. Hacking an environment so that it pretends to be somthing that it's not isn't my idea of a robust development platform.
Of course, for those who live only in the web world, I realize this is a bit of a religious issue in and of itself.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I am continually astonished at the number of different tools needed to achieve a
high level of interaction that is automatic with xaml binding.
I couldn't agree more; my company is in the same boat as yours. I'd kill for a simple {Binding Model.Property}.
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knockout.js library does that for plain old html.
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Thanks; I'll have to check it out.
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My post from previous forum message:
On to an issue whether or not we should move to MVC development I have been debating this with my developers now for months.
And some insist MVC is better though I just dont see it.
What makes a programming methodology better for me ?
Speed of development.
Developer spending less time on interface and normal features and more time getting validation and business logic to be solid
Code that is easy to understand by new developers taking on the project
Structure that is easy to follow and you dont have to jump between mappings and target pages to check how they link
Ability to create reusable controls
Visual designer , so you dont have to repeatedly code something as mundane as a table.
Scalability
When working with MVC4
Razor
Visual designer Gone ;(
No Server Controls
Hooking up an event is manually coded (instead of double clicking or hooking up an event
Single controller multiple pages
Bottom line is what is quicker , on asp.net I can drag a button on the exact spot i need it double click (3 seconds later) I have a button named and hooked up to an event without touching the keyboard. which the mvc guy is still busy typing his input tag , not to mention switching between the controller and the markup screens creating a event and a model.
When i used a aspx grid , I get a nice linq data source hook it up to a grid, columns gets auto generated , meaning all i have to do is change the column headers , click that I want to enable sorting and paging , and I am done 2 minutes later. and if I have not too complex columns the add edit and delete features are created for me in one shot which can be configured for more complex scenarios's
Now as an mvc developer doing the whole grid thing , everything has to be coded , I have to code my data queries (be it LINQ or SQL) to do the paging and sorting , 2 hours an insane amount of typing and script later I have something that kinda does the same thing but looks butt ugly. I guess an expereinced MVC dev can do it in probably 10 mintes flat
My Recommendation, MVC is ok for cases with little complexity and smaller size projects, but when you need to deliver something of great scale and complexity you are shooting yourself in the foot as you will still be coding interface logic when a asp.net dev is long done with the project.
Also just in case you wondering I know
1 MVC does not have viewstate : good practiice minimises viewstate/ you can also hide your viewstate in session using very basic code, also viewstate has never kept me awake one night , projects running late has
2. MVC generates easy to read markup : not really relevant since your customers only really look at the interface not the code
("but but but. . . search engines" - trust me google can handle it.
3. Ability to create clean user friendly urls - The url rewrite method has been available since .net 2, and is infinitely flexible to anyone who knows their regular expressions
The goal of industry here is.
1.to have it done quickly
2.have it done at low cost
3.and to have to have it done right
(you can have only 2 of the 3)
now needless to say 3 quality is non negotiable and 2 is usually what sells software to a client .
but 1 does not help you if developers pulling a salary takes 3 months to develop software that brings in 1 month of profit
Chona1171
Web Developer (C#), Silverlight
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