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When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense
vlangber writes "Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.' Here is a story about a software company that decided to rewrite their application from scratch, and their experiences from that process."
Actually, from what I got from the article it seems they also felt that the basic design of the original version of application just wasn't good enough, that it was in fact seriously lacking and that a gradual rewrite would take longer and not accomplish what they wanted (to clean up and future-proof their application).
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
Thanks for noticing..
.Net, a literal control is created for that data. Strangely Microsoft decided to make EnableViewState enabled by default for automatically created controls. The reason the viewstate is so big on that page is because I forgot to put the above snippet in a Literal control with viewstate enabled:
The blog module uses templated controls. When you bind data to a templated control, all that data get's stuffed into the viewstate as default. To fetch the comment content, the template for a comment has this snippet:
<%# Container.CommentContent %>
As default in
<asp:Literal runat="server" ID="litBlogCommentContent" EnableViewState="false" Text=""></asp:Literal>
I usually check the size of the viewstate, but none of the blogposts I checked had any comments, so I didn't catch it when we created the site. I'll update it as soon as traffic slows down a bit.
dude, THIS is the regex to validate an email address: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html