asp.net
Doh?
Scott Guthrie follows up his excellent blog entry about testing ASP.NET 2.0 with a lot more detail about the testing software, scripts, hardware and all that good stuff.
These people do testing on an industrial scale. Just check out the lab photo!
After a long silence - what has the guy been doing recently - Scott Guthrie has posted a great Whidbey/ASP.NET 2.0/Visual Web Developer update which gives an excellent insight into the behaviour of a large development team approaching a major milestone. In this case the milestone is Beta2.
Check it out.
Fritz Onion, the wonderfully named author of such books as Essential ASP.NET, blogged yesterday about some common reactions to claims of '70% code reduction' in ASP.NET 2.0. In his experience, the common reactions are:
- Oh my gosh, I no longer have to write code to build my site - will I still have a job after this product ships?
- Excellent! Now I can stop building all of that drudgery code and focus on more important aspects of my application!
- Great, now everyone will think he/she can build a scalable web site with a database backend without writing a line of code. I'm going to have to spend the rest of my professional life fixing sites that claim to be efficient and scalable that were built with drag-and-drop sans code!
Obviously Fritz takes the more optimisic view of Reaction #2 above, and his blog entry shows a very good example underpinning his enthusiasm. It shows the implementation of a standard login page in ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0, and introduces the ASP.NET 2.0 provider model on the way.
I need to locate some decent web-based training for ASP.NET. I'm not talking about the basics, but more about caching, performance, session management, scalability and all that stuff.
I'm also open to suggestions for good books on these subjects.
Any recommendations? I don't have the time or money to do classroom training on this.
Thanks all.
ps dear reader, if you are selling training don't even consider getting in touch unless you can offer decently priced web-based training materials on the relevant subjects. You have been warned.