http://simonwillison.net/2013-12-04T09:45:00+00:00Simon Willison2013-12-04T09:45:00+00:002013-12-04T09:45:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2013/Dec/4/is-greater-comfort-with/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-greater-comfort-with-Windows-a-good-enough-reason-to-switch-from-PHP-to-ASP-NET/answer/Simon-Willison">Is greater comfort with Windows a good enough reason to switch from PHP to ASP.NET?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Learning Linux really isn't that hard, and it will dramatically increase your potential horizons as a programmer. Install Ubuntu on a virtual machine on your laptop and start running through some tutorials.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspnet">aspnet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/php">php</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-development">web-development</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2008-01-25T06:59:58+00:002008-01-25T06:59:58+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/25/scott/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCWebFormsUnplugged.aspx"><p>In a recent [ASP.NET] MVC design meeting someone said something like "we'll need a Repeater control" and a powerful and very technical boss-type said: "We've got a repeater control, it's called a foreach loop."</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCWebFormsUnplugged.aspx">Scott Hanselman</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspnet">aspnet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspnetmvc">aspnetmvc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scott-hanselman">scott-hanselman</a></p>

2008-01-17T18:01:27+00:002008-01-17T18:01:27+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/17/aspx/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/17/aspx-considered-harmful/">.aspx considered harmful</a></strong></p> Jon Udell: “I guess I’m extra-sensitive to the .aspx thing now that I work for Microsoft, because I know that to folks outside the Microsoft ecosystem it screams: We don’t get the web.”—he goes on to mention that smart URL rewriting is thankfully built in to the upcoming ASP.NET MVC framework. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspnet">aspnet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspx">aspx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jon-udell">jon-udell</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mvc">mvc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a></p>

2007-10-22T13:45:06+00:002007-10-22T13:45:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/22/aspnet/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx">ASP.NET MVC Framework</a></strong></p> This looks pretty good. It includes clean URL support that’s very similar to how Django does things (with a nice alternative syntax for developers who don’t like regular expressions). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspnet">aspnet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mvc">mvc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scott-guthrie">scott-guthrie</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a></p>