Scott on Writing

# re: Case Study: Match.com 2/13/2004 9:55 AM Scott Mitchell

It appears as if there's a more comprehensive case study for Match.com on Microsoft's Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=15011

# How about from ASP.NET to Classic ASP? 2/14/2004 11:50 AM Greg Pyatt

OK, so I'm going off-topic. Sue me.

Sure, nobody's going to actually port a finished app in ASP.NET to classic ASP, but I'd be interested in finding out how some of you changed your classic ASP style after having some ASP.NET experience under your belt. I know working in classic ASP at this point is idiotic, but there are some of us who have this... "manager" thingy that comes by and compels us to do idiotic things.

OK, well that and lugging around the .NET FCL installation can be a deal-killer for some environments.

# re: Case Study: Match.com 2/15/2004 2:02 PM Darren Neimke

Greg... not that I write a lot of classic-ASP these day (mostly for fun as opposed to profit) but, I can certainly say that my style changed quite a bit after a moved to .NET. These days my ASP is much more modular and, in my opinion exhibits a more readable style. Although it's probably fair to say that the readability probably just comes with experience anyway and is not necessarily a hallmark of .NET written code per se.

# re: Case Study: Match.com 2/15/2004 3:50 PM Lachlan B

Greg - it's your job to ensure that your manager knows that it's idiotic! But of course if you say "that's idiotic" it'll put him on the defense.. so just say...

"It'll take me 2 weeks in asp.net, and it'll be less buggy, or it'll take 4 weeks in ASP. So it'll save you $$$". Then s/he should start listening to reason.