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After reading a few industry reviews, I quickly realized that ASP.Net was the language of choice for most web applications.   For years, I have been favoring PHP due to its close similarities to C++.  However, outside of a few open source projects, PHP is not in very high demand, at least in my region.   I will still maintain my existing PHP applications, write the occasional PHP script to administer a few web sites, and of use it for a few projects at work (seeming as how we are a Solaris shop).   However, most of my web development effort will be migrated over to ASP.Net in order to user C#. 

 The first thing to resolve was the fact that my home web servers are running Apache over Linux.  Obviously ASP.Net favors IIS over Windows for the web server.  Being that I have had experience in writing portable applications between Windows and Linux via Mono… I decided to take a look at Mono to handle running ASP.Net over Linux.

 The solution was mod_mono available and documented here:  http://www.mono-project.com/Mod_mono.   Mod_Mono is an Apache 1.3/2.0/2.2 module that provides ASP.NET support for the Apache web server.  Stay tuned for a few web apps I have coming down the pipes…

The Apple iPhone Software Development Kit has been released!    I may switch gears a bit from mobile development on Palm TX over to the iPhone.  The SDK and related documents can be found here:  http://developer.apple.com/iphone/.   I’ll post my first iPhone program as soon as I get a chance to test it out.  

There is also a $100 million iFund for startups developing applications for the iPhone.