[Chapter-delegates] membership system feedback

[Alan Levin]

Hi Brandt,

Thanks for your harsh reply. I have not seen your name before, looks like
you're in Ireland and I did see a first post to the list last year Jan.
When I searched for Irelands ISOC chapter web site I got to the Irish
Islamic Society web site. Anyways, have you used this portal.isoc system?
How often? For what purpose?

Seems like we differ in opinion since imho an organisation like ISOC global
(an NGO based on global members) should not be using an off the shelf
package for membership. It's core to their business. There are way too many
API requirements and so much that they can do to empower chapters and
distribute. I have always promoted the creation of an open source
distributed membership system. Happy to agree that such a system may use an
open framework, although generating 3000 lines of long code for a simple
page is truly bloated which if you have any experience and use the system,
I am you will understand!

Sincerely

Alan
http://isoc.org.za



On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Brandt Dainow <brandt.dainow at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think that comment is a bit harsh.  Server errors like this happen all
> the time on all systems and rarely have anything to do with the coding,
> more likely server resources.  No one writes code for websites from scratch
> anymore.  Everyone uses CMS's or similar which produce the actual code.
> These are invariably more cumbersome than hand-written code can be, but
> allow developers to accomplish more.  I've hand-written web systems, and
> used Drupal and Wordpress, and would never go back to hand-coding.  It is
> true that Microsoft systems are far from ideal compared with something like
> Apache, and Windows memory management is far from ideal for web server
> applications, but it is a widely deployed technology so decisions to use it
> do not show poor technical knowledge.
>
> On 20 February 2018 at 10:00, Alan Levin <alan at isoc.org.za> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe one day the portal.isoc.org will be rewritten by good
>> developers... using an open standards based platform.
>>
>> Note: I looked at the page source and was surprised to see >3000 lines to
>> make a simple page... and some of those lines were a great deal longer than
>> 254chars... tremendously cumbersome.. doesn't make ISOC look good..
>>
>> hth
>>
>> aL
>>
>>
>> Server Error in '/' Application.
>> ------------------------------
>> *Request timed out.**Description: *An unhandled exception occurred
>> during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack
>> trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the
>> code.
>>
>> *Exception Details: *System.Web.HttpException: Request timed out.
>>
>> *Source Error:*
>>
>> An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current
>> web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception
>> can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
>> *Stack Trace:*
>>
>> [HttpException (0x80004005): Request timed out.]
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alan Levin
>> ----------------------------------
>> Chairman ISOC-ZA
>> +27 21 4882820 <+27%2021%20488%202820> (ddi)
>>
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>
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