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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…
Starting it all off
There comes a time in every man’s life, when their website undergoes an unexpected change in servers and ends up losing all of their hard earned history in databases.
So were starting fresh here now, feels kind of good actually.
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