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[ControllerAction] and sane defaults

[Ed: For anyone who's living under a bush Microsoft have released a CTP of the new ASP.NET MVC framework. ]
I’m reluctant to get involved in this - but I feel like there’s another side to this story which is worth considering.
Since it was first presented at altnetconf - the decision to require users1 to have [...]


SoC in WebForms

Scott Bellware makes a brillant comment on Hammett’s weblog:
ASP .NET templated controls did almost nothing to encourage separation of orthogonal concerns. It simply ended up separating concerns that aren’t separate concerns.
Pure Genius - this summarises an entire field of criticism (e.g. [1][2]). The whole issue with the OnRowDataBound/FindControl() style of programming is that things which [...]


Rails as the Visual Basic of the Web

A couple of things have got me thinking along these lines recently.

Giles Bowkett made an interesting post on his blog:
“[T]his has always been my fear for Rails; that in five to ten years, the worst jobs you could get will be Rails jobs where you’re maintaining stuff built by non-programmers who figured Rails made programming [...]