EDIT:
I may not be with WordPress. I will keep you updated. I am looking at .NET options after I had to go back on a few things within my research. Please reach out to me if you happen to read this within the next few days.
*DotNetNuke
*Orchard
*Umbraco (probably not) ... ok scratch that
Alright so I’ve gotta get real. I’m tired of sucking at blogging. I have been using somewhat more of a diary and not really something that contributes value. So we’ve learned that I probably should keep some kind of alternate journal to organize thoughts and then actually think about what I want to publish online. So yes, I am currently watching a Pluralsight course that is available free called Get Involved! It was put together by Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman and it is a really awesome way to see how to get your voice out there and socialize amongst the community with blogging and Twitter, GitHub, and of course Stack Overflow. It’s got great insight from people who have been blogging for a long time. Jeff Atwood gives some insight into what it takes to have a successful blog. I would definitely advise to listen to whatever that man has to say. So yes … it’s been a month since I said I “officially” started learning C#. I’m trying to focus on how much time I’m spending and what I’m doing when I spend time on my computer to really maximize results and be effective. Because time isn’t something that I have an abundance of. I have school and work and it has been distracting because all I can think about is coding. I have to remember what other things I like to do as well. So I have watched several courses and I am reading a wonderful book by John Sharp from Microsoft Press called Step by Step – Microsoft Visual C# 2013 and it has really helped a lot of those concepts sink in. C# is an extensive language and is the heart of the .NET framework so there is a lot to learn because it is utilized everywhere. Data types, Object Oriented principles, and … Razor! Yes, I’ll get to that. I know that at heart I’m a web developer. I really like learning C# and I really do want to be very good at using it for a number of projects in the future. But there is nothing like seeing a pair of anglebrackets and a DIV in action! ß Kidding. But yes, I love learning more in depth OOP principles and C# seems like such a useful and powerful language … but I know honing my programming skills is going to be utilized on the web. So that brings me back to Razor. Yes the wonderful view engine that I have been mesmerized with. The whole thing … I know that ASP.NET is a perfect place to start in my career. I wonder about how everything all works together and right now I am having a blast. I don’t know about what the future holds but I’m still on the .NET train for today. I love having AHA! moments. Every line of code I write and everything I watch and read helps all of these things come together more and I really like to see that happening. I learned the basics of MVC and I am really understanding the MVC structure and how these things work and my face lit up in awe to see a URL be mapped to the Actionmethod of a controller. Seeing how to create a consistent layout and maintain its usability throughout an entire application, and how to generate new content throughout the application using Razor markup – C# code directly in use with HTML. Keeping concerns and responsibilities separate and emphasizing convention over configuration is definitely how I want to do things. Well yes I am learning … but not enough doing. I have a lot of open projects that I am doing but it’s time to implement those. This is the last kind of diary post I will ever do and I will probably be the only one to come back to this again but I am thinking about a CMS to go with for blogging .. at least for now. I am going to post relevant information about things I have learned and show examples of that information. I will continue to update of course on live projects. I got the opportunity to work on my first professional site as an amateur web developer. This opportunity came from a very good friend of mine who agreed to let me create a site for them, advertising their hair styling business. This is exactly the real world opportunity that I need for a resume and I have other people that I’m talking with who will let me do the same thing. Very excited for this. But yes, going to start out on wordpress or DNN and just create and create as much as I can. Still have to work, still have to go to school, still have a young family, still have stress, and still have life. This is just one exciting part of it all.
I may not be with WordPress. I will keep you updated. I am looking at .NET options after I had to go back on a few things within my research. Please reach out to me if you happen to read this within the next few days.
*DotNetNuke
*Orchard
Alright so I’ve gotta get real. I’m tired of sucking at blogging. I have been using somewhat more of a diary and not really something that contributes value. So we’ve learned that I probably should keep some kind of alternate journal to organize thoughts and then actually think about what I want to publish online. So yes, I am currently watching a Pluralsight course that is available free called Get Involved! It was put together by Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman and it is a really awesome way to see how to get your voice out there and socialize amongst the community with blogging and Twitter, GitHub, and of course Stack Overflow. It’s got great insight from people who have been blogging for a long time. Jeff Atwood gives some insight into what it takes to have a successful blog. I would definitely advise to listen to whatever that man has to say. So yes … it’s been a month since I said I “officially” started learning C#. I’m trying to focus on how much time I’m spending and what I’m doing when I spend time on my computer to really maximize results and be effective. Because time isn’t something that I have an abundance of. I have school and work and it has been distracting because all I can think about is coding. I have to remember what other things I like to do as well. So I have watched several courses and I am reading a wonderful book by John Sharp from Microsoft Press called Step by Step – Microsoft Visual C# 2013 and it has really helped a lot of those concepts sink in. C# is an extensive language and is the heart of the .NET framework so there is a lot to learn because it is utilized everywhere. Data types, Object Oriented principles, and … Razor! Yes, I’ll get to that. I know that at heart I’m a web developer. I really like learning C# and I really do want to be very good at using it for a number of projects in the future. But there is nothing like seeing a pair of anglebrackets and a DIV in action! ß Kidding. But yes, I love learning more in depth OOP principles and C# seems like such a useful and powerful language … but I know honing my programming skills is going to be utilized on the web. So that brings me back to Razor. Yes the wonderful view engine that I have been mesmerized with. The whole thing … I know that ASP.NET is a perfect place to start in my career. I wonder about how everything all works together and right now I am having a blast. I don’t know about what the future holds but I’m still on the .NET train for today. I love having AHA! moments. Every line of code I write and everything I watch and read helps all of these things come together more and I really like to see that happening. I learned the basics of MVC and I am really understanding the MVC structure and how these things work and my face lit up in awe to see a URL be mapped to the Actionmethod of a controller. Seeing how to create a consistent layout and maintain its usability throughout an entire application, and how to generate new content throughout the application using Razor markup – C# code directly in use with HTML. Keeping concerns and responsibilities separate and emphasizing convention over configuration is definitely how I want to do things. Well yes I am learning … but not enough doing. I have a lot of open projects that I am doing but it’s time to implement those. This is the last kind of diary post I will ever do and I will probably be the only one to come back to this again but I am thinking about a CMS to go with for blogging .. at least for now. I am going to post relevant information about things I have learned and show examples of that information. I will continue to update of course on live projects. I got the opportunity to work on my first professional site as an amateur web developer. This opportunity came from a very good friend of mine who agreed to let me create a site for them, advertising their hair styling business. This is exactly the real world opportunity that I need for a resume and I have other people that I’m talking with who will let me do the same thing. Very excited for this. But yes, going to start out on wordpress or DNN and just create and create as much as I can. Still have to work, still have to go to school, still have a young family, still have stress, and still have life. This is just one exciting part of it all.
EDIT: Again...
I'm still using Blogger. I do have a Wordpress set up and am building my own system with ASP.NET Web Pages ... but this is just going to have to work for now. I don't really think that I'll get rid of Blogger. I mean, I like Google. And there is a lot you can do with it. Oh well. I will do random stuff like this like mentioned above but I am doing things that will be strictly technical. They will be meant to teach. Right now I'm writing a post on how C# implements Interfaces and Abstract Classes ... coming from JavaScript 101 ... this concept has been mind boggling. I have learned a lot and it's time to share things I know while I'm coding.
string farewell = "Happy Coding";
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