What's the point?
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I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal. The only problem with that is I don't speak Spanish, so I'd have to hire a bilingual assistant to translate it for me. :confused: Wait, I know what you're thinking: Why not just subscribe to the English version? As software developers that answer should be obvious to you. That would be the easy way!! And so it follows that I opened up a client's legacy .NET web application this afternoon, and found myself asking the question, "What's the point?" It was a main page with three HTML frames that loaded three other aspx pages. So then I opened the other pages looking for the code and laughed out loud when I opened the aspx.cs page! Nothing but a series of ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock commands to run JavaScripts. No C# code whatsoever anywhere! :wtf: Now I'm just waiting for what is surely the next shoe to drop; a page that's entirely rendered from Response.Write statements. :-\
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I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal. The only problem with that is I don't speak Spanish, so I'd have to hire a bilingual assistant to translate it for me. :confused: Wait, I know what you're thinking: Why not just subscribe to the English version? As software developers that answer should be obvious to you. That would be the easy way!! And so it follows that I opened up a client's legacy .NET web application this afternoon, and found myself asking the question, "What's the point?" It was a main page with three HTML frames that loaded three other aspx pages. So then I opened the other pages looking for the code and laughed out loud when I opened the aspx.cs page! Nothing but a series of ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock commands to run JavaScripts. No C# code whatsoever anywhere! :wtf: Now I'm just waiting for what is surely the next shoe to drop; a page that's entirely rendered from Response.Write statements. :-\
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I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal. The only problem with that is I don't speak Spanish, so I'd have to hire a bilingual assistant to translate it for me. :confused: Wait, I know what you're thinking: Why not just subscribe to the English version? As software developers that answer should be obvious to you. That would be the easy way!! And so it follows that I opened up a client's legacy .NET web application this afternoon, and found myself asking the question, "What's the point?" It was a main page with three HTML frames that loaded three other aspx pages. So then I opened the other pages looking for the code and laughed out loud when I opened the aspx.cs page! Nothing but a series of ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock commands to run JavaScripts. No C# code whatsoever anywhere! :wtf: Now I'm just waiting for what is surely the next shoe to drop; a page that's entirely rendered from Response.Write statements. :-\
jond777 wrote:
I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal
you mean one more of rupert murdoch's propaganda machines?
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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jond777 wrote:
I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal
you mean one more of rupert murdoch's propaganda machines?
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
Sure, something has to balance the NY Times.
“Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support
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I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal. The only problem with that is I don't speak Spanish, so I'd have to hire a bilingual assistant to translate it for me. :confused: Wait, I know what you're thinking: Why not just subscribe to the English version? As software developers that answer should be obvious to you. That would be the easy way!! And so it follows that I opened up a client's legacy .NET web application this afternoon, and found myself asking the question, "What's the point?" It was a main page with three HTML frames that loaded three other aspx pages. So then I opened the other pages looking for the code and laughed out loud when I opened the aspx.cs page! Nothing but a series of ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock commands to run JavaScripts. No C# code whatsoever anywhere! :wtf: Now I'm just waiting for what is surely the next shoe to drop; a page that's entirely rendered from Response.Write statements. :-\
jond777 wrote:
a page that's entirely rendered from Response.Write statements.
I had that at my last job. My employer purchased a code base that was originally classic ASP, and then "converted" to ASP.NET. All the original authors really did was make just enough changes to ensure everything compiled correctly. A single ASPX page could be responsible for rendering 5 or more distinct pages using nothing but Response.Write. It was ugly. X|
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Sure, something has to balance the NY Times.
“Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support
i would hardly called murdoch owning 39% of american media venues a balance to anything
----------------------------------------------------------- "When I first saw it, I just thought that you really, really enjoyed programming in java." - Leslie Sanford
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I was thinking today that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the Spanish version of the Wall Street Journal. The only problem with that is I don't speak Spanish, so I'd have to hire a bilingual assistant to translate it for me. :confused: Wait, I know what you're thinking: Why not just subscribe to the English version? As software developers that answer should be obvious to you. That would be the easy way!! And so it follows that I opened up a client's legacy .NET web application this afternoon, and found myself asking the question, "What's the point?" It was a main page with three HTML frames that loaded three other aspx pages. So then I opened the other pages looking for the code and laughed out loud when I opened the aspx.cs page! Nothing but a series of ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock commands to run JavaScripts. No C# code whatsoever anywhere! :wtf: Now I'm just waiting for what is surely the next shoe to drop; a page that's entirely rendered from Response.Write statements. :-\
I often have to generate html,javascript on the fly; sometimes .net controls on the fly, sometimes both, depends on the situation, especially on applications that are entirely data driven.
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