paulmignard

What!? .NET!?  This is the site where a certain somebody poked fun at Vista and .NET and everything Microsoft for some time right!?

It is – however – in the spirit of keeping an open mind and trying to learn something new, and since we use a Microsoft stack aside from our heavy use of flash – it’s something that I feel like I should at least moderately comfortable with. Plus there are other motivating factors…

ASP.net for all intensive purposes is actually kinda slick. I’ve been tearing through the ASP.NET Unleashed book and playing with some of the examples (mostly data stuff and asp controls) and I’ve been really impressed with how fast you can crank out some basic CRUD apps. Admittedly, it has taken some time to grasp the whole Viewstate, code-behind, and postback model (and I’m not exactly sure I get it all yet) but it seems to be coming together. Plus, I’ve been having some fun MVC, although I’m not really sure what to call it (asp.net mvc, the mvc framework, just mvc?). We’ll see what happens.

Silverlight (I know I know I know I KNOW) : I’ve been quite vocal in my comparison between Silverlight and Flash and while I still love Flash and everything that is going on in the community I think I might be foolish to turn a blind eye to the rapid progress that is happening on the silverlight side. Things seem to rapidly be getting better over there and I’m kinda interested in getting my hands into some silverlight examples…

XNA…yeah, I still have childhood memories of sitting down with a ream of graph paper and designing the next great platform shooter (like the old 8-bit classics that we spent half of our time trying to make work in our aging and apparently dusty nintendos)…this memory brought me into Flash, I’m interested to see where it could go in this platform.

Soooo, no I’m not becoming an outright Microsoft fanboy but yes I am seeing what life is like on the other side of the fence.

Blore!