Well, it’s my first real day and opportunity to start diving into the world of ASP.NET and adding that to my toolbelt. I’ve been a PHP guy for about four years now and have become relatively comfortable with it and consider myself at about intermediate level. But I’ve always been haunted by the fact that I don’t do ASP. I plan on changing that.

I’m using the book SAMS Teach Yourself ASP.NET in 21 Days (Second Edition) and for the most part it is really easy to follow. It does have its moments of personal interjection and needless comments…

…The browser is a dumb application, in a sense. It can only interpret HTML, and that’s it…

Kind of a rude statement, I think. That’s like saying, “you’re dumb because you only can read english”. It might be more appropriate to say something like “The browser is limited in its capabilities and can really only interpret HTML”. You can call IE a dumb browser if you want… I don’t mind. But when Firefox is concerned, you better watch out pal. You’re treading on thin ice.

But all that aside, I actually like ASP.NET so far. I like the forms integration and how the server interacts better with the client and the syntax seems pretty logical for the most part… so far.

I will be curious to see how PHP is compiled in the CRL and used.

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