zondag, februari 04, 2007
Started programming
It's been longer than usual since I posted to this blog. The reason-slash-excuse is that I've started programming. It's going slower than I expected, and I've decided to take my time to get it right. After all, there are no project timelines, budgets or livehood dependencies involved in about2findout.com.
I'm using ASP.NET as you know, and the recently released Ajax add-on to it. So far the experience with Ajax has been quite good. The ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extension are a free download on the ajax.asp.net page and were released on 23th of January. So in the two weekend plus some evenings since, I've only managed to program the master template for the site. Not much, but I need to get the basics right first. It reminded me on the time I was programming the InStap software for Multitaal. I was in Lund (Sweden) at the time as an Erasmus exchange student. During my spare time I programmed and sometimes it would be past midnight before I knew it. Sometimes I would go to sleep thinking about a problem, start up my computer in the morning and finding a fix in just a few minutes. Those were the days :-).
Anyway, I'm not a programmer, nor do I have the ambition to be one. Just want to learn enough to make my project happening and want to do it right. I'm not an expert in GUI design, security, database, etc but I want to have an acceptable solution in all these areas. There has been a glitch along every step of the way so far in my programming experience. The learning curve is steep, but I find great help especially on the asp.net page, the ajax.asp.net page, the code project site and the blog of Scott Guthrie, one of the creators of the .net framework.
In the next posts I will share some of the technical programming experience so far. Some things have costed me a few hours to figure out, so I want to spare you that. :-)
PS: There is nothing new on the site yet, the mockup will stay until I have enough to upload.
I'm using ASP.NET as you know, and the recently released Ajax add-on to it. So far the experience with Ajax has been quite good. The ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Extension are a free download on the ajax.asp.net page and were released on 23th of January. So in the two weekend plus some evenings since, I've only managed to program the master template for the site. Not much, but I need to get the basics right first. It reminded me on the time I was programming the InStap software for Multitaal. I was in Lund (Sweden) at the time as an Erasmus exchange student. During my spare time I programmed and sometimes it would be past midnight before I knew it. Sometimes I would go to sleep thinking about a problem, start up my computer in the morning and finding a fix in just a few minutes. Those were the days :-).
Anyway, I'm not a programmer, nor do I have the ambition to be one. Just want to learn enough to make my project happening and want to do it right. I'm not an expert in GUI design, security, database, etc but I want to have an acceptable solution in all these areas. There has been a glitch along every step of the way so far in my programming experience. The learning curve is steep, but I find great help especially on the asp.net page, the ajax.asp.net page, the code project site and the blog of Scott Guthrie, one of the creators of the .net framework.
In the next posts I will share some of the technical programming experience so far. Some things have costed me a few hours to figure out, so I want to spare you that. :-)
PS: There is nothing new on the site yet, the mockup will stay until I have enough to upload.
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