[astonecipher]

I know that place. I work there too!!!

[TechnoBear]

BenignDesign, on 09 April 2019 - 05:46 AM, said:

The general consensus from the rest of the department is he insists we all use whatever he uses. Instead of trying to branch out and use what is best for each situation, he's spent his career doing things one specific way and refuses to try anything else. Therefore, we all have to do it the way he would do it or suffer his wrath.

This might me an extreme fear of the hit by a bus issue. His thinking may be if the entire department left/died/went on vacation at the same time he'd be unable to maintain the products if it is outside of his scope.

While completely irrational, I could potentially see where it comes from. Though it could also just be a case that he wants to know he knows what he's talking about when people ask him about products and their limitations, or when staff have questions.

[NeoTifa]

You should introduce them to scrum and devops. "Teams determine their own solution"-wise anyways. MVC is just a design pattern, but I guess .NET just complicates it? I mean the mvc pattern is very standard and keeps things neat imho.

I, for one, am a fan of Docker. At first I didn't like it either, as I could not wrap my head around it, but now that I know what it does and how to use it, I sing its praises. In the testing world it is sooooooooooooooo handy. I can spin up containers to test remotely so I don't have to lock up my computer. Also it is super hand when you're running a lot of tests in parallel (as long as your scenario data is unique due to lockout and general concurrency concerns). Selenium grid/Zalenium plus Docker is a major plus for testing. Plus, if you have your GitHub pipelined into Jenkins, it can run different test sets automatically when you commit code to certain branches. Our devs used Docker to build so we don't need dedicated workstations for it, as well as other things. My new team, however, is still in 1994, so 99% don't even know what Docker is, or devops. Of course every time I make suggestions to go more devops, they look at me like I have 2 heads.

[modi123_1]

BenignDesign, on 09 April 2019 - 06:46 AM, said:

I did some brief playing around with Razor pages and they're far more straight forward and easier to get a job done. When I mentioned it to the boss, however, I was told I have to use MVC.[...]

Oh bugger. I know you told me this before, and I just plum forgot. Sorry!

[astonecipher]

Docker is great for deploy-ability and scale-ability, depending on what is in the containers...


Like every other language, .NET has its idiosyncrasies. But, you are especially behind being dedicated to PHP for so long, without looking into other languages.


I wish I was home studying rather than here watching tests and working on compiler issues. I believe tomorrow I will be working on design documentation that is incorrect from design. The document itself is fine, if you follow the templates that are out there, but the way my company does it, is just, how you say, incorrect?

[Martyr2]

Blah... I have done ASP.NET for nearly 7 years and have done MVC. While it has some advantages, I find it is still very domain specific. I much prefer PHP over ASP.NET because I can have the flexibility to model nearly everything in half the code of ASP.NET. MVC will only help in SOME projects. MVC for a few pages is overkill for instance.

ASP.NET was Microsoft's poor attempt to have a web server-side technology. They thought it was a great idea to leverage their popular desktop languages onto the web and the mapping didn't go well in my opinion. It is probably why ASP.NET only runs a few percent of all websites on the Internet. PHP is far more popular by orders of magnitude due to the popularity of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and a host of other CMS systems.

I am glad I am out of the ASP.NET hell. Just getting your mind wrapped around the whole page lifecycle and postback process is a chore.

But I feel for you B9. I am with you.

This post has been edited by Martyr2: 09 April 2019 - 10:03 AM

[TechnoBear]

Martyr2, on 09 April 2019 - 11:02 AM, said:

Blah... I have done ASP.NET for nearly 7 years and have done MVC. While it has some advantages, I find it is still very domain specific. I much prefer PHP over ASP.NET

I've been in the .Net domain for about the same amount of time and I have to say I much prefer ASP.Net over PHP as I just find it far simpler to work with and more intuitive. However, that could be due to the fact that in my 10 years developing I have about 9 years working in .Net and about 3 years using PHP.

I have a feeling this is a lot more to do with what you're comfortable spending time with as a developer.

[ArtificialSoldier]

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I much prefer ASP.Net over PHP as I just find it far simpler to work with and more intuitive.

Per the terms of my employment, at this point in the discussion I am contractually obligated to bring up FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile.

[modi123_1]

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Warning

This API is now obsolete.

https://docs.microso...framework-4.7.2

[ArtificialSoldier]

Yeah I became aware of that long ago. I don't know what the current method is, but hopefully someone decided to just call it a generic name for hashing instead of suggesting it needs to be a password or it needs to be stored in a config file. I'm not sure how that ever made it out the door in the first place, but it doesn't exactly inspire a whole bunch of confidence in the people who created the framework or what they imagined the skill level of the developers using the framework to be.

[xclite]

ArtificialSoldier, on 09 April 2019 - 03:52 PM, said:

Yeah I became aware of that long ago. I don't know what the current method is, but hopefully someone decided to just call it a generic name for hashing instead of suggesting it needs to be a password or it needs to be stored in a config file. I'm not sure how that ever made it out the door in the first place, but it doesn't exactly inspire a whole bunch of confidence in the people who created the framework or what they imagined the skill level of the developers using the framework to be.

Of course, we all know PHP had no historical gaffs or uninspiring early decisions.

[astonecipher]

Today is already starting off shitty. I started hearing my name being said in my boss's office, so I investigate. Get informed that a complicated process is failing (surprise) most of the time, yet we have logs that 99% of it works. But, I built it how they wanted me to, because they knew how to do it. Now we are where we are and I have the blame for their design failing...


On top of that, I have a build that now succeeds, but a Reference still causes the system to not function, because it can't load the thing. And I have no idea how to solve that one either.

This is what happens when you don't take the advice of your staff under advisement, shit breaks and you look stupid and so does your team.

[modi123_1]

Someone seems to be having a bad day.. got a level three tiered passive aggressive email-slap for something that will have to be taken care of by another department.

Snap.

[modi123_1]

Unrelated to my corporate shenanigans, the whole 'picture of a black hole' is certainly worth some reading.

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The breakthrough image was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes spanning locations from Antarctica to Spain and Chile, in an effort involving more than 200 scientists.
[...]
The sheer volume of data generated was also unprecedented – in one night the EHT generated as much data as the Large Hadron Collider does in a year. This meant waiting for half a year for the South Pole data, which could only be shipped out at the end of Antarctic winter.

https://www.theguard...ce-breakthrough


MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman helped created the algorithm three years ago to produce the image. More information here:
http://news.mit.edu/...lack-holes-0606

[macosxnerd101]

It has been a frustrating last couple of weeks with one of my classes. Last night's integration bee was honestly a breath of fresh air. I bribed my Calc I students with a nominal amount of extra credit and the promise of free pizza to go (the department paid for the pizza). The students that showed up got a lot out of it, even though some of those integrals required Calc II techniques. One of my students is even considering taking Calc II, even though that person doesn't have to do so. This student then asked me if I was teaching their required Stats class next semester. So that was a success, both for student learning and inspiring Stockholm syndrome!