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Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end; making things work properly, efficiently, and securely is more much satisfying to me than making things look good. However, I appreciate a good-looking website (and anything good looking for that matter) by all means.
I also find myself going on hours-long tangents when working on solo projects to try and get my front-end looking halfway decent, because I don't want to put ugly crap in my portfolio, plus it just bothers my eyes lol.
But front-end really is a beast and it is something that I theoretically could spend all my time on. I have high standards and I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/ but at the same time, I often feel distracted and not as fulfilled when I am spending hours or even days learning things like advanced CSS3 or Photoshop when I could be (and I feel like I [i]should be[/i] improving my skills with data modeling, LINQ, MVC, and stuff of this nature.
Plus, at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend so I could spend 6 months on some super cool architecture and if it looks ugly, nobody, including my own family members could care less. That's the kicker lol.
modified 19-Aug-16 0:29am.
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: at the end of the day, nobody actually sees a backend
So write an article about it. If you want impress fellow backend developers, that's the way to go, not with some shiny web page.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: my own family members could care less
They won't care anyway, so why bother.
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: I love back-end more than front-end;
I thought talk like that was reserved for the soapbox..... 
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: http://www.erated.com
Quote: Beta coming May 2015
Errr.... I think you need to get on things...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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My error! The site is actually: http://www.erated.co/
Pretty close name though lol.
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end;
Yeah, I'm an ass man myself.
TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: I don't want to stop until I have a website that looks like http://www.erated.co/
I literally rolled my eyes when I saw that site. That template is used on about 90% of sites that came out this year. It's everywhere and I'm sick of seeing it, it's just cliché now.
If you want a good looking site but don't have the skills to do it then look at template sites like Template Monster (I think), and there are many others. You can simply buy a template off the shelf for not much money then all you need to do is implement it. You'll easily find a template like erated. In fact, you'd probably struggle to find a template that isn't like erated.
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: Clearly, I love back-end more than front-end;
Ewww, TMI. 
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I'm having to relive it again! 
Any one still write WinForm application any more?
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WinForm has one control that you may miss in WPF: The DataGridView control. It is easier to code than WPF's DataGrid, but since I mastered coding DataGrids - who cares?
Yes, in WPF you can have a DataGridView if you deploy it in a WinForm host, but then you cannot bind to it. In other words: MVVM is out! Bleah!
For me WinForm went out with bloomers and witch burning. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 18-Aug-16 17:52pm.
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Yes, my desktop apps are all WinForm apps.
/ravi
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save money is reason, some of us still use old tech
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I have never succeeded to get my head round WPF.....so I stick to winforms when doing anything.
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Leng Vang wrote: Any one still write WinForm application any more?
Yes, but I am old and useless 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I'm older and even less use.
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Winforms is the best! F*** the web! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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As a current web developer, I fully endorse this statement! 
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i must say that also the Jesus version is not bad at all ..
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I dunno, most microbes cannot tolerate a high-salinity environment. Holding a piece of bacon on a cut for a minute or so may do more good than you'd think!1
1: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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Is divorce the end of an error?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is divorce the end of an error?
And the start of the next one! 
Marc
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