August 11, 2005
Breaking Down
Well, I’m finally breaking down, giving in, and resigning myself to the necessity of learning *gasp* ASP.NET. I’ve been a PHP guy since 2001—never felt the need or the desire to learn ASP/VBScript, even if it meant having more job opportunities available to me. For me it was a matter of principle—if I can do it with PHP, why do I need to do it with ASP? PHP is free, a great development movement, and can be developed for nearly any platform—windows, un/linux, mac.
Well, the sr web developer in our department has this huge wishlist of what he’d like to do, but just doesn’t have the time to do it. He kinda hinted that I oughtta learn ASP.
So I broke down, bought SAMS Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days. Now we’ll see if I can actually learn it in 21 days. Not exactly thrilled about learning it, but if I can get a competent working knowledge of it, at least I can add that to my resume’s skillset list.
Oh joy. Another M$ developer is being born. Does this mean I have to extend my arm towards Mr. Gates as I goose-walk my way to my cube? 
August 11, 2005, 9:16 am
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Jamison said,
August 11, 2005 @ 2:53 pm
You realize I must terminate our friendship immediatly. All pictures of us together will be henceforth destroyed, and I will be moving to a new location where you will never find me again.
Jamison said,
August 11, 2005 @ 2:53 pm
Seriously though, from what Pete’s told me about ASP.NET it’s not too bad. It’s a lot different than PHP though….
Michael said,
August 12, 2005 @ 9:58 am
Isaac seemed to suggest that C# programming for .NET is relatively close to PHP or ActionScript and that VB.NET is more like old ASP/VBScript. I can’t confirm that yet until I get a chance to go through some of the intro materials, but I may start learning C# if this is true.