Nate's Programming Blog

Well I found out last week that my first assignment with my new job maybe .NET. I’m kind of excited at the prospect of learning the Microsoft counterpart to Java. I think it will greatly increase my knowledge of programming and make me a much more rounded developer. I haven’t gotten confirmation, but I’m pretty sure they will be putting me through a training course for the conversion to .NET. David, one of the head guys a Daugherty, said that it takes all but 10 minutes to migrate from Java to .NET. That is probably an exaggeration, but I think it should be pretty smooth from what I hear. One of my concerns is it seems to be a much less structured language according to what James told me. It kind of makes since since the Microsoft programming languages are very proprietary. They basically have one IDE and one environment. What concerns me is that fact that it seems that in a lot of situations all of the code is in the front layer (ASP, etc.), and thus it seems like it is sort of an anti-pattern programming language. This is all just what I’ve heard though, I won’t know for sure until I dive in next week.