Archive for February, 2012
ASP and Me
Throughout my life, I panned ASP. At least, the original incarnation of it. I criticized its slowness, its convoluted nature, and its sheer inability to be used practically by every ASP developer I saw.
When I made the decision to sign under the PHP camp, I was choosing between ASP, PHP and Perl. I will always be grateful of my decision.
Now comes the time where I am trying to branch into something of a software developer. I’ve been freakishly excited at about every prospect I have to dive into Microsofts C# and while I havent had too much exposure to it, I always remained giddy. I dunno, something about the language just “clicks” with me, and was actually one of the sole basis on why I wanted to get a Windows Phone 7 device as opposed to Android (..I eventually went with Android anyway… stupid Java..)
With ASP .NET 4.0 having been released, and C# being mature enough as part of the .NET family for a while now, I decided to install MonoDevelop and the mono_mod for apache2 and give this ASP thing a try.
It was DEFINITELY different.
I’m used to creating a “project” with an IDE (which basically means a file somewhere thats a reference point to a folder that contains all my files) or just outright making a .php file in a directory on my server and loading it up. No fuss no muss.
Getting past the point where I seemingly cannot just make a .aspx file and be on my way took some mental fortitude to break and reassemble. In fact, I could NOT understand why perfectly legit sample code just wouldn’t run until I found out that I actually have to “compile” the site first.
And that felt weird to say.. “compile the site”. Its still a bit of a mind-job but once i work around these concepts, and thats all it is is a different concept of development, I plan on making a makeshift Job Listings type site as a test.
Who knows, maybe it’ll go somewhere. That’s how POF started anyways.
I dont have much else more pressing on the matter so im just gonna get going here.
Got some.. black berry .. porting to do…
oh joy…