| Hmmm, Being a solutions architect by day means i live in a code based world, I've even taken to asking people to convert things i don't understand in to C# simply because i get the impression these days it's easier to read than english if you look at some places (in game chat and instant messaging comes to mind). C# Is (for those of you that don't know it) a language developed as part of the .net framework a programmers library of little tools for building almost anything. The range of things that can be built is touched upon (or will be soon as i get fully up and running) on my web site. The reason why i mention C# and .net is because you can write "seudo english" C# code and it through asp.net does the html bit. Of course you still have to nudge it a little but with the environment you get through visual studio such nudging is relatively painless. It's easy to pick up and of course the forums over at Microsoft are huge and very well supported. But on top of that comes the MSDN library which is basically everything everyone whoever got involved with anything Microsoft ever did in a huge searchable database. Hows that for reading !!! The key thing that interests me about the Microsoft approach is that it provides a very strong structured approach to building anything which you can reapply in various areas. I build web applications at work, some desktop applications, and even games in my spare time all leveraging the power of the .net framework !! I'm probably going to be hit by a load of Billy G haters now telling how sad it is to support such a crime lord lol. Simply put though, if it's easy to work with and gets the job done, why try and find something elsewhere ? Oh and everything I just said ... FREE ... before you linux lot start on that, and you don't have to jump through hoops to get it working. The most expensive thing about my web site is the £30 a YEAR i pay for hosting which comes with 24/7/365 online chat email and telephone support for my windows based server. have a look (link below) at the current version of my site (due for update very soon). It's near xhtml standards compliant and css compliant, the next version will add a load of tools to allow members to add pages and fix the standards issues. Overall, its about 2 months work (spare time only)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.ccoder.co.uk (beta version) My playground : Multicore mainframe 46 ghz (Intel), 128 GB Ram (1ghz), SAN Storage (60TB), extra cat swinging space  My "On the road rig" : Dell XPS 1730 with all the trimmings  My Home server : Core 2 Duo 1.8ghz (Running at 3.2ghz), 4GB Ram (800mhz), 2x 500 GB Sata, nVidia 8800 GTS 768GB (With extra crashing)
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