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Microsoft’s Tech.Ed 2005 webpage

Hardly an advertisement for the prowess of .Net or Microsoft web developers. View source for some gems like:


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Sadly, this springs to mind…

Web design is currently characterized by developers who know their language about as well as a marketer knows English, when they should know it as well as a novelist. This period will not be remembered for the innovation. It will be remembered as the stumbling slow kid who had to spend a long time intoning “SEE SPOT RUN”.
Owen Briggs - August 2002

…micron by micron.