Posts by Whore Reamer 5 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Dec 2009
... proselytising does annoy or upset a lot of people. Just because he found three people who were receptive doesn't mean that, in doing so, he didn't piss off a bunch of others. Religion has its place and if people are twatty enough to need it then they know where to find it. They should string this fucker up as an example. He could have started a riot.
@Rattus Rattus What is this world you live in where an organisation's systems are nomadic, constantly moving from platform to platform and back again? Not the real one, frankly! "Ooo, hang on, it's December again, time to migrate everything to a different platform! Good thing we're IT geniuses and our intranet can run on an Amiga 500!"
Bloody loony, no wonder you work for a government department -- probably the treasury -- no commercial organisation would touch you!
Our business is a web-based service and we're very happy that we picked .NET to build it with. The .NET class library is excellent, far richer than other platforms we evaluated -- the only missing or weak area being charting controls. However, Microsoft's purchase of Dundas a year or so ago, and MS Chart now being a free add-on, has more than remedied this.
We've now built up a strong library of our own extended and custom controls, which means development of new functionality is rapid, consistent, and rock solid. Compared to previous projects done with PHP (for example), we are in a much better place.
Java was a serious consideration for us, but given that cross-platform was of no interest, and the relative strength of Visual Studio as a development tool, .NET has proven to be excellent.
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