Falling in love again.

I have always been a "client side" kinda guy. Most of the work I do is fairly heavy graphics code and I'm reasonably good at problem solving when I can sit down in front of a good algorithm and bash out some code.

I am forced through circumstance to do work in HTML and I generally use FrontPage for my web site work but I can honestly say that HTML and presentation stuff of that nature is BORING BORING BORING so I tend not to put as much effort into it as I normally do my other work. I find that this reluctance is also affected by the fact that it's so dammned complicated to get a web site to do anything at-all interesting and the mix of script and the hokey way it fits into HTML coupled with the truly abysmal debugging options one has for working with it means that I do the minimum possible to make my sites work.

Up until recently, I had hosted my sites on cheap servers that didn't offer ASP.NET services so I was stuck with whatever active stuff I could be bothered to learn in the JavaScript fashion. About a year ago however I moved BobPowell.NET to a server at Brinkster because they had much more bandwidth than the godaddy servers I had been on before.

Now, I'm a great believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" so I have used the brinkster service as a high bandwidth home for my old site and not made that many changes to it. Within the last few weeks however I have got back into using ASP.NET beause I'm writing a complete licensing, support and customer management package for XRay tools. Of course, I knew how this all worked from a theoreical standpoint and had done lots of sample stuff on ASP.NET but never sat down to write an end-to-end application in it.

Well folks, I'm in love. What an excellent way to create an application. It has all the visual afdvantages of HTML with all the algorithmic advantages of client-side work. I can write my web-site in the same way that I'd write a Windows Forms application and it works so well!

I'll definitely be putting LOTS more active stuff on my sites from now on. GO ASP+!!!