Nobody Listens Anyway

Here’s something I am posting so I remember it. I want pretty urls for my latest ASP.Net application - The Plan Collection (2.0, reloaded, you can pick your favorite internet term). Url rewrites work fine using the web server built into Visual Studio 2005. Howerver, IIS is smart about what it lets [...]

Scott Guthrie is the man when it comes to ASP.Net - he is in charge of it and it is basically his brain child. Those around the world that write code for the web using a Microsoft platform owe him big kudos. Anyway, when he speaks it is wise to listen. He [...]

I finally worked through most of the challenges I was faced with and I like asp.net again. It is interesting to program in several environments. I do a lot of Ruby on Rails these days and I love it. However, I have other applications that are written in ASP.Net. I have [...]

For a long time now I have been trying to figure out how to update The Plan Collection to an open source platform. I find myself updating it to ASP.Net instead. ASP.Net is ok to work with. I think Ruby on Rails is better. By better I mean simplier. ASP.Net [...]

I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting - houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is [...]

I have worked in numerous roles as a programmer. My lot has been everything from low level USB firmware to Visual Test to ASP and then ASP.Net. Years ago, when I first saw ASP.Net I thought that I had found the best web framework in the world. I am working on a [...]