Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

I don't deny that. My whole take is that use the tools you are comfortable
with. A Ruby on Rails person could probably say the same thing as I have.
For us, the web knowledge is ASP.NET, we won't be changing any time soon.
Most business apps are in RPG now and new stuff is being created often in
RPG.

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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

But that needs to be put into perspective. Mike, you weren't writing
RPG web apps those 10 years. I will be the first to admit that
Microsoft has some of thee best software to get up and running quickly
with web stuff, but with only a few days of tinkering (even less these
days vs. 10 years ago) it is quite easy to get up and running with RPG
on the web.

Aaron Bartell
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http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Well said. It's still about how you architect the app whether in RPG or

anything else.

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message: 6
date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:52:35 -0500
from: Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

That would be a simple get data display data type thing. I would say the

same thing though. I could write a simple ASP.NET app quicker than I could
in RPG any day and I have 10 years of RPG under my belt and 4 years of a
project here and there in ASP.NET.

I think I can say that because of Visual Studio and how MS has setup the

ASP.NET tools. I can create a source file, drop a couple controls onto the
page, pass in a table, and format the logic in quick fashion. This is the
blessing (and curse) of ASP.NET. So on one hand you can do a real quick
CRUD app in a very short period of time. However, a better designed app does
take more time and more care than that.

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