Let me recommend:
Code Complete, Second Edition (Paperback)
ISBN: 0735619670
no, I am not affiliated with it. but in there are some great concepts on
dissecting a project and estimating units of work.
I saw a spreadsheet once that appeared to be a direct translation of those
concepts.
My estimation of time on effort may be differnent than yours. I cannot
speak towards PHP but I can speak on VB 6 to VB 7, and what I thought would
be a pretty easy migration turned out to be more involved.
Either way 850 hours is a significant investment for one person, ~21 weeks
of coding. The good news is, hopefully, you have a great deal of lessons
learned during the process, and user feedback once in production. I would
bid it from scratch as worse case and then toggle your normal hadicap.
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Hi - if I have created a PHP web application in 5 months (850 workign
hours) and now I want to convert it to ASP.NET, then how many hours do
I need to invest in to make this happen? Anybody has any experience on
this?