I want to tell you about a project that was simple at first glance. Initially, it looked like things would be fairly straightforward: Port a Web application over to ASP.Net and its Windows CE client application over to the Compact Framework. But as things turned out, it wasn't that easy. The particulars of the applications and the politics of the environment we were working under conspired to make us choose between a graceful solution that ran like a dog, and a relatively ugly but much better-performing solution.
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