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I was at a CF conference with MySpace as a speaker and they talked about how often they went down but that they were switching to another CF engine with .net ca
by 83457 6y ago
I was at a CF conference with MySpace as a speaker and they talked about how often they went down but that they were switching to another CF engine with .net capabilities (BlueDragon). Their discussions and jokes about instability and going down due to bad code updates were really cringy and gave the impression that their platform was a mess.
- rmason 6y agoPretty certain we were at the same conference. There development practices horrified the group I was with in the audience. At a time that a new competitor appeared (Facebook) they made the fatal mistake of rewriting their software in dot Net. No new features for a year or more. Joel Spolsky wrote a pretty famous essay about the wisdom of doing that. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
- jeremycarter 6y agoI live by that blog post.
- conjectures 6y agoThanks for this one, it encapsulates a feeling I've had for a while but could never verablize so well.
- adrr 6y agoPerformance was the feature. Friendster should have been social network of that era but they couldn’t scale and had to shutdown new user registration. Same thing happened to Twitter but they had no competitor in short form social networking.
- lowcodetv 6y agoPownce? "Twitter on steroids" [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce
- rkuykendall-com 6y agoI remember when Kevin Rose of Digg made a lot of noise to launch this and then it very, very quickly died.
- jjeaff 6y agoI had an older friend that worked at CF when I was a teenager. He taught me a bit about relational databases and some other important stuff as he was one of the only developers I knew growing up. I remember him telling me how I was wasting my time building in php/MySQL since CF was the future and serious companies wouldn't be looking for php developers. Glad I never pulled the trigger and bought their expensive IDE.
- 83457 6y agoNo expensive IDE was necessary and there are open source servers now. Regardless, you made the right choice.
- kodah 6y ago> No expensive IDE was necessary This is most certainly debatable That said, that IDE was legit. It was comparable to IntelliJ. I want to say I used it over Komodo quite frequently.