Switcing to ASP.Net for web development…
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…