Archive for March, 2009
What’s in your wallet? – Part 2
I felt I should follow up on my post from yesterday. First I want to say that I’m not trying to bash Jeff or otherwise rub his nose in it. Jeff has stated that he learns best from the “Smackdown”. And I’m nothing if not confrontational 
As I stated, my first dealings with Ayende were back around 2003 or so when the company I worked for tasked me with developing a new webmail program. The previous version had been written in java and functioned but lacked many features that our customers were asking for. At the time the company had the grand idea of the “standard language”, and following the “no one ever got fired for buying Microsoft” logic mandated that C# was to be that language.
One of the major hurdles I ran into was the lack of a performant pop3/mime library. Many were tried but most relied on regular expressions to parse the messages and this would bring the server to its knees if more than one or two users attempted to open their mailbox at the same time. So off I went to write a mime parser. › Continue reading
