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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: though at least I have a 256GB SSD drive which helps
I agree. I think that is probably the most important feature of all in speed with Windows and Visual Studio especially. I just upgraded to an SSD from an HDD at home and the change has been extremely dramatic. Also, at work we all have SSDs and it makes everything far better.
A lot of software is I/O killer -- especially VStudio.
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I agree as well. Simply replacing the HDD with an SSD on my personal laptop literally made a world of difference. Also, much less expensive than replacing an otherwise very good laptop with a very expensive top of the line laptop.
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Have you played with the new ASP.NET Core stuff?
Marc Clifton wrote: Conversely, the web sites that I write don't use ASP.NET, Razor, or any of that garbage
What are you currently using?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Have you played with the new ASP.NET Core stuff?
No, but I actually want to. I imagine it's a lot lighter weight, given that IIS doesn't exist (and hopefully never will) on Linux boxes.
Chris Maunder wrote: What are you currently using?
I wrote my own HTTP/S server from core .NET classes (not "Core" stuff), use a "semantic" multithreading router, and rely heavily on Newtonsoft.Json. The rest is jQuery, Bootstrap, and maybe a wee bit of Knockout (I really have little use for MVVM models, actually, as crazy as that sounds) and lots of Ajax for a nice responsive UI experience, wrapped in some client-side libraries I put together to make life easier (less typing) and my UI poison of choice is jqWidgets (which is actually quite cool.)
No Angular. No Backbone. No React.
It's amazing how much can get done when you don't add several framework layers between point A (give me the value of this control) to point B (send it to the server.)
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: I wrote my own HTTP/S server
Ladies and Gentleman, I present to you: A Developer.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Forsooth!
#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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Chris Maunder wrote: I present to you: A Developer.
I resemble that remark! 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No kidding! 
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I'm amazed at the over engineering MS does... which makes it harder to learn/change/work with in some of it's stacks.
I recently completed a project with a simple HttpListener for the web server and Vue.js for the client side [my first real web project after a lifetime of winforms development].
ps: Vue.js is awesome, simple and powerful !!
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Marc Clifton wrote: I wrote my own HTTP/S server from core .NET classes (not "Core" stuff)
Marc, you're a NIHilist[^]. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Marc, you're a NIHilist[^].
Actually, I consider myself to be an Anarchist and in another 10 or 20 years, I'll probably actually look a lot like Mikhail Bakunin!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I've been developing using .NET since 2005 and I agree with what you wrote. The start-up delay really annoys me, especially when you see how well (performance wise) Java sites work (they start up pretty much instantly).
.NET is very convenient to work with though - the framework, IDE, and third party support is really good and Microsoft have put a lot of effort into adding new features/enhancing existing features over the years.
I'm in the process of switching over to .NET Core, but hardly ever use MVC these days - it's all Web API and Angular for the kiddies these days 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I know you're complaining out of the frustration of it and I've been hit by the same thing quite often. XCode on iOS has done this to me numerous times too. And of course VSTudio and associated technologies will just kill you at times.
So the following is not a lecture but a continuing of the conversation...
This is the price we pay for structured code based upon patterns that provide code organization.
It does impose overhead at times.
However, once the web app is initially started it is _usually_ quite fast.
This is OOP, not just a script running in the background.
It's the trade-off of creating code that is organized. There are always faster ways, than OOP.
However, those faster ways tend to lead people into creating code that other people don't want to read.
Assembly is very fast running, but very slow to read.
(all you assembly coders out there are going to chime in and say, "I can read assembly so fast." )
Again, this isn't a lecture but a good discussion about trade-offs.
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raddevus wrote: This is the price we pay for structured code based upon patterns that provide code organization.
No it isn't. I have a reference website that I use for the starting point of anything else that I build that is just as structured, using good patterns and code organization.
In fact, better, I think, because I personally think that mixing C# code with Javascript that requires a template engine to parse and build as it serves pages, well, while it sounds cool, it's really bad practice, IMO, and I avoid it like the plague. The result is much more readable Javascript, clean separation between the HTML and the Javascript, and a well formed Javascript library that I've pieced together as I identify re-use.
raddevus wrote: However, those faster ways tend to lead people into creating code that other people don't want to read.
Too true. I can't imagine I could convince anyone here at work to do it differently. Regardless, I'm quite content to do development of my own websites with my tech, and if anyone wants to contribute, they have to learn it or bugger off. 
raddevus wrote: Again, this isn't a lecture but a good discussion about trade-offs.
True again. And the tradeoff is actually less with regards to technology than it is to people's perception, buy in, and willingness to learn, at least in my experience.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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That's a great post. I agree with you.
This is a great summary of the situation...
Marc Clifton wrote: And the tradeoff is actually less with regards to technology than it is to people's perception, buy in, and willingness to learn,
Master developers can create new frameworks that have considered trade-offs and which create architectural frameworks that can be passed on to others. I honestly think that is the case of what you have. Now, getting others to buy in to that can be problematic. Also, many companies are just going to ask what Stack you're working on and expect a limited answer like:
1. ASP.NET MVC
2. LAMP
3. AngularJS (which isn't actually complete either since you need backend) -- but just saying Angular gives a dev Gravitas.
4. other stack
But my point here is that companies just hear the buzzwords and have good or bad feelings about the specific stack and that's basically how they determine their architectural underpinnings.
Or some guy comes along and says, "I know Python and Django. I could do the whole thing in a week."
2 years later....
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raddevus wrote: Also, many companies are just going to ask what Stack you're working on
Exactly. Somewhere along the way, the concept of "full stack developer" came along, whereas my concept of a "full stack" is rather different.
The worst part is, these so-called full stack developers are expected to know the Javascript, the DOM, CSS, some client-side MVVM, some single page tech, as well as some layout tech like Bootstrap (which is a time saver), as well as the back-end: writing the REST API's, the database design, etc. Oh, and not to mention, this one developer is expected to create performant, good looking, web sites! Holy script, JavaMan!
And frankly, given how fubar'd client side development is, I much prefer the back-end.
raddevus wrote: 2 years later....
So so true. The CTO where I used to work made this promise. And literally, 3 years later...
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: as well as the back-end: writing the REST API's, the database design, etc. Oh, and not to mention, this one developer is expected to create performant, good looking, web sites! Holy script, JavaMan!
We just need you to know everything about everything.
Great discussion. 
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Or some guy comes along and says, "I know Python and Django. I could do the whole thing in a week."
2 years later.... Laugh | :laugh: "
Yup - been there, suffered through that.  Perfectly describes a couple of projects I worked on where some noob engineer comes by with the latest toy language/framework/whatever and promises the world to management, who naturally buy into it. 
I'll stick with what works, then add new stuff if it helps.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Xcode with objective c rocks. They improved also the pods import. Not sure what problems you have with it, but overall can't complain at all.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Over all it's not bad. Was more thinking about just the sheer size of its footprint and sluggishness at times. I was also thinking about the issue I ran into below.
My code has all been XCode via Swift (not objective-c).
But, here's a problem I was _lucky_ enough to stumble into first and I was in the middle of a project and it totally crushed my app and design view. Luckily I reverted the code and was able to finally fix it via editing the design file via text editor (outside of XCode).
It ended up being a bug in XCode.
ios - Why do internal inconsistencies occur in Main.storyboard and how do I get around it? - Stack Overflow[^]
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Sounds exactly like my box (before I up'ed to SSD - definite improvement and 16G - no noticable change)
but even before the up's it was never that slow and never thrashed even when compiling in running in full 'dev mode' (VS13, MySQL server and clients, NotePad++, browser - many tabs, email excel and word all at the same time.)!
Disable the bloat services and useless task scheduler entries
start with superfetch - it on purposly fills all memory with useless apps: MS says it 'loads the apps you use most' - that's bullshit, after months of use I caught it still loading [ms] apps I never used even once, and not loading a lot I did use every day. Everything got faster without it. It's useless, even without SSD the advantage (even if it worked properly) would be negligable.
Absolutely avoid chrome like it has leprosy.
Disable stupid crap, like the Adobe Reader update checker.
If you trust yourself turn off any anti-virus full-time read/write-to-disk scanning (in fact mine's on-demand only) - just scan anything you download as and when.
Unless you must have it SQL Server is a hog.
(BTW: Only need Compact Edition for VS to work)
Even now with firefox, and a couple of explorer windows and taskman there's only 29 processes in my taskman list - before clean up was closer to 40 and it seemed even moving the mouse would rattle the disk. (Mostly that was the superfetch effect - swapping active apps in and out to save the precious pre-loaded ms crapolapps.)
I've got an old i3 laptop that outperforms one i7 machine a client provides for me at their office - but then again they loaded it with "speed up" utilities - what a joke those things are.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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You won't notice a difference with 16GB of RAM until you have 3 instances of Visual Studio, database management software, Outlook, Firefox (with 20 tabs open), Chrome (streaming Pandora and level 2 stock data), and a remote connection to a server all open at the same time. The highest I've gotten my work machine to was nearly 12GB 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Lopatir wrote: I've got an old i3 laptop that outperforms one i7 machine a client provides for me at their office - but then again they loaded it with "speed up" utilities - what a joke those things are.
That's really a hoot - more code to "speed up" a machine. If you've ever written assembly you know that more code never means more speed!
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Don't debug. Build, refresh page. If something goes wrong, set breakpoint and instead of F5 use one of those VS AttachTo AttachTo-Next - Visual Studio Marketplace extensions for debugging. Makes for a pleasanter experience. Not perfect but better than F5. Debug JS in Chrome dev tools or whatever.
Kevin
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