Fork out £30 a year for .NET framework?

[NickFitz]

Not a huge amount but an MS tax nontheless.

Was thinking of putting up a portal to showcase ASP.NET stuff - to try out new ideas and to use a portfolio for new work.

Most of the respected geeks that write books etc. seem to have straightforward static sites with code that you download, so is that the way to go do you think? Or should I have a ready made portal with links to various apps?

I think you should definitely have live demos as well as code downloads. It may not be usual in the ASP.NET world (I haven't had to endure that misery for a while now, so I'm not sure who the big names are nowadays) but in the LAMP and front-end coding world, it's a given that you actually show stuff working, rather than just talking about it and offering a download.

All the regulars that publish books and speak on the conference circuit (in my world) do things that way. More to the point, it was doing things that way that brought them the opportunities to publish books and speak on the conference circuit

[Shimano105]

Well I'll defintitely stump up now - maybe even offer double!

[Pickle2]

So £30 a year, business expense - not a huge amount but grates a little as it is lining Bill's pockets.

Who promptly gives the whole lot to his charity. Chill, think of it as one less child with polio

[d000hg]

It's not an MS tax, if a host charges you to have ASP.net. Dynamic scripting like JSP/PHP often costs money too, since it puts more strain on the server than static HTML.


Also, you could host your stuff on your own PC, if you could be bothered to sort it out and had a spare PC you could use.

[AtW]

Blagged a modest .NET gig into the bargain - toot toot.

If you earn a living from programming .NET, be prepared to share small bits of your earnings with the others who also make a living from .NET.

Windows hosting as always been more expensive than Linux due to licensing costs, there are ASP.NET hosting deals below £30 pa however.

[Shimano105]

Everything rosy for me - kids fantastic and I kicked a dead end permie job into touch earlier this year, dusted my spurs down and got back onto the contracting rodeo.

Blagged a modest .NET gig into the bargain - toot toot.

How's life in the Eastern Bloc?

[milanbenes]

morning Shim,

hope life and business is going well and treating you fine

Milan.

[Shimano105]

Morning Benes!

Idea is this: would like to practice implementing new ideas with real world application i.e. site with various simple (but useful to me) apps.

So if, for example, I would like to refactor using the UIP app block to demonstrate (and get used to implementing) the MVC architecture I do it here. Must be better than randomly coding "hello world" apps.

So £30 a year, business expense - not a huge amount but grates a little as it is lining Bill's pockets.

[Durbs]

I own a great .NET related .com domain name i'm not using and can sell it you for vast sums if you are interested.

[milanbenes]

keep it simple

Milan.

[sasguru]

sounds very complicated

I'm guessing most things sound complicated to you.

[milanbenes]

sounds very complicated

why share your knowledge ?

strange

Milan.

[Shimano105]

Not a huge amount but an MS tax nontheless.

Was thinking of putting up a portal to showcase ASP.NET stuff - to try out new ideas and to use a portfolio for new work.

Most of the respected geeks that write books etc. seem to have straightforward static sites with code that you download, so is that the way to go do you think? Or should I have a ready made portal with links to various apps?