sajidnizami

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by sajidnizami 11y ago
People who were fired for being flash developers came back and designed the same stuff with Ajax/JavaScript. We're still stuck with badly designed sites. At times you can just use a simple hyperlink to open a document and don&#x27
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by sajidnizami 13y ago
Your argument makes most sense around here :)
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by sajidnizami 14y ago
Always find maps.nokia.com better on my iPhone. Best part is it works even in places others fail. e.g. UAE.
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
Odd. Every other place in Middle East is listed, except the one with the most tourist attractions. Where is Dubai?
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
In my opinion, just like politicians are worthy of public scrutiny, the people in power should be too. If a person's actions and views affect population, they should be known to the people who it effects. Having said that, it becomes diffic
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
There was an old vision that machines would do the stuff for you somewhere back in the day. Sad that we've got to a point where we can make this possible but won't because we can't trust pie in the sky. Torn between the two options and can'
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
Is this the difference between US and UK market? I remember reading something different for US: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-10-06/tech/30250041...
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
Wow :) The resounding one.
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
Here is another market. Pakistan, India's neighbor did similar thing three months back. Good to see that as internet penetrates this region it is with a good capable browser. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PK-monthly-201106-201108-...
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
It is difficult to develop when rendering on all browsers is different. I do agree with him, one platform that did what we told it to. All hacks were documented. However I don't miss it. Plenty of capable platforms out there that can help b
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
I am just curious. What .Net libraries do you find messed up?
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by sajidnizami 15y ago
I don't think this should even be a discussion. If it covers costs well and your solutions work, discussing this doesn't matter. I started with using .Net for a startup four years ago. Back then there were no Redis, NoSQL wasn't even a inve
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
I am with you. I've just written powershell scripts that work in the following manner. 1. Make a dated folder and copy the new build to the folder on all servers. 2. Point IIS to the folder on all servers. Just in case a backup powershell
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Sorry. My mistake. :)
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Gap of about 20ms between compiled Linq2SQL and this looks enticing. I guess this can be used at hot spots with optimized SQL queries using existing LINQ2SQL entities. Definitely not for everyone. The whole reason it exists perhaps is to ki
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Exactly. Initially they weren't using anything OSS but moved to HAProxy and Redis. They even help update HAProxy from time to time. http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/2669915777/powered-by-redis-...
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
They are part of Bizspark program so they got free licenses. They don't even have much hardware. Important part isn't caching. You can just create HTML copies off a page and serve them through a fast server, that is a very easy cache. Diffi
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
SO is the best case study of a startup scaling with .Net. Whenever I read their infrastructure stuff I cringe I am not in their team.
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
You are right about candidates. I had the same reaction to SEO at first. See SEO guy is partially right. It involved page load times. Larger viewstate means longer load time and that gets penalized by Google.
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
I remember Velocity and articles on it initially. Thanks for the help. I am looking up AppFabric now. See I prefer sticking with one flavor of tools because its easier for developers to adjust. TBH MS does supply almost everything from grou
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Thinking that would help is a mistake. Take it from someone who went to optimize SQL Server 2008 R2 to its limits. Cache framework's are absolutely necessary. The whole idea is to avoid a SQL Server hit and return a cached data object in me
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
All these new frameworks are designed to work with OSS tech. So lets say some better NoSQL platform comes out, it supports OSS technologies first. .Net comes later and sometimes it is difficult to decide which client library to pick to conn
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
StackOverflow's architecture these days is not just Microsoft stack. They are using Redis and whole load of other OSS tech to get things working. Here it is interesting to note that this is what they started with: http://blog.stackoverflo
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Web forms were designed back somewhere around 2002 to compete with the likes of JSP etc. They still work well for their domain, which is intranet portal etc. MVC however is designed from grounds up to deliver speed and web standards compati
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
It does but I think you misunderstood the point. Most .Net developers are working on intranet sites. They don't have problem with large footprint pages. When they move to internet and public domain websites, they are newbies. It takes them
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Longer page would increase page load time. A longer page with viewstate at the beginning would delay loading of content. Google penalizes pages that load slower. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-sit...
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185984/is-viewstate-bad-... Yes I talk to them that we have a high traffic site and we lose them because they don't know about building them. Besides you won't find many Microsoft s
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
I too work with sites hitting high visitor count but I have to agree there with the article. Most .Net people I've interviewed think page load speed doesn't matter. They write code to satisfy the requirement and are quite good at it, but it
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
Scalability is relatively new hiccup; given the fact that only in past few years users have swarmed the internet. Sites never expected that and developers weren't prepared. They learned mostly by trail and error and reading case studies and
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by sajidnizami 16y ago
I support your statement. Read up on the author too. He was voted bigot of the year last year and has a cred. I am not sure why this even got attention in this place.

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