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I don’t remember when my adventure with ASP.net actually started, and when I think about it, can I truly define this as an adventure? I decided to wiki “adventure” and see what I get back… Adventure - An adventure is an activity that comprises risky, dangerous and uncertain experiences. … The term is broad enough to refer to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with risk, such as a business venture or a major life undertaking.Source - Wiki article on Adventure …Risky? I would say yes. what I do for a living is not related to website development. I retired from web development when I settled for a secure job doing database development. fast forward 5 months and I felt emotionally stifled at work and bump into my old boss who tells me of a web development position in another department. I quickly prepare my resume and send it off and wait for word…1 week later, I get a call back to schedule an interview…I did not get the senior-level position, why? because they wanted someone with 1 year of ASP.net development experience. that was 1 month ago and that’s when I started my ASP.net adventure.I haven’t looked back too much because I’ve been focusing on getting solid with ASP.net and in this process, I still like web development, it’s part of my roots. here are my top 5 reasons (some unrelated to one another):1. never a dull moment 2. there is no right way to develop websites 3. quick prototyping of layout and content4. constantly learning. 5. it is the future (see iPhone and Sharepoint) So I pulled a michael jordan and basically came back out of web development retirement…except I plan on leaving out at the top of my game. this self-imposed retirement has allowed me to take a fresh approach to website development which is really great.Going back to the wiki definition of Adventure and the right context, this ASP.net adventure hasn’t been all that risky, dangerous, or uncertain. developing websites with ASP.net is fun, safe, and certain. I italicized certain because this is a solid development environment and think ASP.net websites will have a strong developer following.
it’s been a full day since I created any new asp.net pages and in between my time off, I went back to PHP programming…boy, PHP frameworks are harder to use than ASP.net. I’ve tried the seagull framework and smarty templates and although they are easy to use, the learning curve is quite steep… I hope to get back to some serious ASP.net programming, only problem is that I have to run Parallels emulation software to run windows…
When you hear of the matrix, you think of the 1999 revelation starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne, but once you run asp.net web matrix, it’s a whole other revelation.When I read Introducing ASP.net Web Matrix, I was surprised that a lighter version of the big behemoth Visual Web Developer exists. I have only used ASP.net web matrix for 2 weeks and must say it’s a better tool for beginner ASP.net developers. ASPWM supports both .NET languages (Visual C# and Visual Basic) and allows a a web developer to create basic ASP.net website.All the web controls and html controls are still there which is great as Visual Web Developer has quite a feature set. Best of all, ASPWM is Free!My only gripe is with the lack of intellisense and without a decent reference, I’m lost as to what code to write. Good thing about ASP.net and web controls is that it’s easy to google which methods are called…more to write about ASPWM and I master ASPWM, hwa hwa! screenshots:
dice.com (php) - 2492 (nyc)dice.com (asp.net) - 4819 (nyc)craigslist.org (php) - 609 (nyc) craigslist.org (asp.net) - 209 (nyc) i think these numbers tell a story behind technology and the returns you get.the companies on dice.com are established companies who are willing to spend money to make money whereas on craigslist.org, start-up companies or small business are looking to get something for nothing. now, I am not saying you should avoid craigslist.org entirely for your job classifieds. no, no, not at all, I landed a decent web development gig through craigslist, actually.another rant about craigslist php jobs…entry/junior level, part-time/permalance gigs NOT COOL!that’s all I have for now, later.
in my last post I talked about PHP versus ASP.net briefly, why one “sucked” and one “rocked” well, boy am I embarrassed, me and you can have the best of both worlds.
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Does anyone know how many sites are using ASP.net versus every other language, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, right now?A quick google search reveals a chart graph from netcraft.com and it shows ASP.net head to head with JSP with a strong lead over Lotus Notes…who knew you could develop websites with Lotus Notes? only problem with this stat is that it’s from 2004 and this was before Visual Web Developer 2005, I can only imagine what it’s like now. I like to think ASP.net has a commanding lead over JSP, although it will be a while before ASP.net catches up with PHP.PHP in my opinion is still the leader because it can be run on almost any platform, you can write your php code manually and it’s quite easy to debug, whereas with ASP.net, Visual Web Developer runs only on Windows, and well that’s it… I can’t complain about Visual Web Developer, having just played it with last night, it really is something, I can’t get over not having to write JavaScript and refactor my code when the website requirements change, in Visual Web Developer it is a pretty sweet environment for creating websites.ReferencesASP.net Overtakes JSP and Java Servlets (mar 23 2004)
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when I heard of ASP.NET, two things came to mind, the ASP language and web development.
both of which do not go together at all. if anyone is still programming in ASP for web development, I truly am sorry for them, it’s just plain ponderous…
ever so inquisitive, I downloaded visual web developer 2005 2008 to see what the commotion is all about…
I set about to create a hello world page composed of two buttons with a text field in between.
To be fair in my tests, I had to become familiar with visual web developer because realistically, I can hand code this form in nanoseconds…okay, minutes..but definitely NOT hours.
so…I won’t bore with you the details, with everything timed with VWD, took about 03:50 to get a hello world form up and running. no javascript involved very little html in fact, VWD just requires drag and drop, you’re good to go..
feeling shocked that a tool like this would get me a working HTML form in minutes, I timed how long it would take ME to hand code a similar form in HTML…
okay, Im back….I just timed myself hand-coding as I’m writing midway through this blog post.
02:58.
I wrote the HTML code first, and then the JavaScript, then I filled in the names for the HTML elements and the onClick functions…and then it came to me, JavaScript and HTML, is not all that different than ASP and that people are still combining code and presentation like they have no choice in the matter, but they do… Visual Web Developer and the language of their choice, VBScript/C#
Clearly, ASP.net has nothing to do with ASP at least not in the syntactical sense, but it still uses VBScript, anyways… this is my first impression and although hand coding proves a DIY code ethic, it’s not the way to do web development…. I hearby renounce PHP and Perl!
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