| Pro ASP.NET 4 CMS: Advanced Techniques for C# Developers Using the .Net 4 Framework Contributor(s): Harris, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1430227125 ISBN-13: 9781430227120 Publisher: Apress OUR PRICE: $38.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General - Computers | Programming - Microsoft - Computers | Programming Languages - C# |
| Dewey: 006.788 |
| LCCN: 2012405466 |
| Series: Expert's Voice in .NET |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.4" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I started down the road of building a content management system (CMS) as a direct result of the experiences I had working with another custom CMS in my day-to-day work. A handful of design decisions made at the conception of that system years ago greatly impacted the CMS from a development standpoint; some things worked exceptionally well, some things needed additional love and care to achieve the results we really wanted, and some things were outright broken. As usual, hindsight is 20/20; although the system had carried us for years, the code base was so huge and so intertwined that rewriting it was the only cost-effective solution. Even simple maintenance tasks and feature development were increasingly resource-prohibitive. I set off on a skunkworks project to create the CMS while the remaining developers kept the existing one chugging along. It's a truly difficult decision to throw away code. A lot of developers worked on the previous CMS over the years, and a completely new system brings with it a unique set of challenges. I wasn't only throwing the old code away; I was throwing away the applied project experience, the accumulated developer-hours spent working with it, and so on. It's the shortest path to incurring significant design debt that I can think of, and incur I most certainly did: the CMS was developed from the ground up over the course of approximately a year. |