Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
by wayne on Sunday September 21, 2008 @10:48PM
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It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but...
- ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too:
http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx
These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites.
- ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home.
- It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.
Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
by anthonyrubin on Sunday September 21, 2008 @10:51PM
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During one of the podcasts I believe Jeff stated that he was able to get free copies of the most expensive version of Visual Studio from a friend at MS.
Re:What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
by michaelneale on Monday September 22, 2008 @02:00AM
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Jeff Attwood and co that built it are used to .Net/MS/Visual Studio development, so for them the cost was probably small compared to the cost of switching stacks + tools.
- ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites.
- ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home.
- Microsoft's startup program gives startups the early software for super cheap: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/
- It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.
What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?
Also, you may want to peek at the HN HTML source.
Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P
Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.
Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx
Talk to one of their technology evangelists, they love seeing cutting edge companies building their business on MS.
Anand Iyer, http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/, can point you in the right direction.
With what was Stack Overflow built?
:~)