Hidi-Ho!
This is my first post to my Web Blog and I would like to discuss my ongoing experience with .NET development - specifically ASP.NET using C#. I would like to put out topics or coding practices out to the .NET Geeks of the world to comment on or to critique or to flame.
A little about me
My name is Allen Guest and I'm a displaced Canadian living in the Seattle area. I came down here during the .com bubble and have thankfully been busy despite the .com bomb and the economic downturn. Perhaps it has to do with my experience as I've been coding since I was 12 years old - now 23 years ago with my first love - a Commodore Vic20. With a whopping 3584 bytes of memory and a ~1Mhz processor it was my tool to rule the world. I wanted to write computer games back then - and still today have a love of great computer games and their amazing ability to entertain. I have an appreciation of the Art of programming and now marvel and the technical ability and production ability to truly write games. Yes, I said Art.
Due to circumstances, my career deviated from my love of games and in college got my first taste of “work” as a programmer writing data acquisition and analysis systems for oil and gas using C, Pascal and x86 Assembler. The Web started gaining popularity in the early 90's and then I migrated to writing web enabled applications - and finally web applications. In the last year or so, I've settled on my current tool of choice C# for writing applications on Windows platforms.
I want to share my day-to-day experiences with it - including my gripes - in developing applications. I hope that other “Geeks” will read and contribute their thoughts and experiences. I've learned so much from self experimentation and the self experimentation of others that have shared. I hope you do too.