steviee

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Happy new year!

Hi,

just take the platform you're most comfortable with (Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node/Express, ASP.NET, whatever...) and implement your smallest possible product/service use cases (MVP-like) and ask your peers or future-customers to start working with it.

Then iterate though all the issues and suggestions to improve it.

First rule would be to get SOMETHING WORKING online asap.

You can go from there. When you're making money, start improving the product and the technology.

To address your needs you need to know what you need first. :)

Best regards, Steviee

Sorry for being off-topic but I need to write this down:

The first thing I had in mind after reading the topic "Open-sourced food production" was "Soylent Green is people!".

Puh, good thing that's off my mind now.

Best, Steviee

Deal with it. Want to use a framework, learn how to use it properly, especially if it's authentication/security related.

Programming is hard. You won't learn anything about the technology by only using high level point-and-click libraries and IDEs.

best regards, Steviee

I agree. My experience (and please tell me when I'm wrong) is that Windows developers for the most part stick to their choice of framework while multi-OS (Windows included) developers are more open to the wonders of the world.

So statistically the .NET guys may be more narrow-minded regarding development stacks.

Steviee

We'll see. Hopefully it is not as half-hearted as the other technologies Microsoft tries to establish and then forgets about. They will need to put a lot of effort into it to have something even remotely equal to Node (or other micro servers). And when they deliver, the Node hype could be gone already! ;)

As a counter-counter point: You absolutely need NHibernate (or something else) when you use EF.

Steviee

Yes, I'm also eager to see this in action. About time.

Regards, Steviee

Is your post about C# or the .NET stack? I can (somewhat) relate to using C# over some other languages. However what I cannot relate to is being trapped with the .NET stack.

And a trap it is. You need expensive Windows Servers to host your stuff and Windows just disqualifies itself as a server platform (my subjective opinion). Having to use a powerful latest-tech machine and very recent OS version (2012?) with loads of patches, newest .NET framework just to host a super simple REST service with the almighty IIS is OVERKILL in every sense of the word.

Some people even use this approach when all they do is run an AngularJS powered, single-page javascript web application.

And my bullshit-meter just spikes when I see this kind of (use your imagination).

I agree that Visual Studio is a good choice for Windows software development and that SQL Server is (maybe) a good choice, when you use VS.NET (or .NET at all). But that's just a dependency when you opt for the Microsoft world. Stay clear of it and save yourself some hair.

Just my 2 cents! ;)

Best regards and good look with all that you do, Steviee

No.

Yes, even though with the right marketing (make it easy to use) any smartphone vendor could probably implement this service. Or just create a "dial"-app replacement for iOS (if possible), Android, ... to use the service and fall back to normal phone numbers when needed.

It's more of a marketing challenge than a technical one I guess.

Regards, Steviee

I think this would probably be a good thing. Changing your cell phone numbers and stuff like that won't matter so much anymore. Hell, providers could hand out IPv6 addresses as phone numbers and you could still have a fancy name/number to call.

You should start a company devoted to this! Nice thought!

Regards, Stevie