Quotes About Web application

will see a warning from Visual Studio that the FormsAuthentication.Authenticate method has been deprecated. This is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts to rationalize user security, which is a thorny area for any web application framework. For this chapter, the deprecated method will suffice and allow me to perform authentication using the static details I added to the Web.config file.

The web is a delivery mechanism—an IO device—and your application architecture should treat it as such. The fact that your application is delivered over the web is a detail and should not dominate your system structure. Indeed, the decision that your application will be delivered over the web is one that you should defer. Your system architecture should be as ignorant as possible about how it will be delivered.

Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application, which is available for free at gettingreal.37signals.com.