So yesterday was the first real day of development on Grurrah. For the last couple weeks I have been fiddling around with mysql and doing a little bit of class design, but yesterday I finally got to start writing some code.
Most of the day was spent getting used to the improvements in asp.net and web development in general. I haven't done any web development for about three years now. When I was working on asp.net in Mono, we were totally focused on 1.1. Master pages are pretty sweet, they are definitely going to help me out a lot. That's pretty much the only new feature I've run into though. I hope that I don't miss out on any 2.0 sweetness because of my ignorance.
The other new technology I have been getting used to is AJAX. Holy crap Gaiaware's AJAX controls are sweet! Totally simple to get up and running, and so far they haven't required that I know anything at all about AJAX. No javascript either!
I'm trying to use AJAX in as many places as possible right now. Partly because I want to learn how to use it and partly because I think it will make the site a lot nicer.
My main task for today is to create the login and signup stuff, and hopefully get some time to update my data models to reflect some ideas I've had this week. I'm doing my best to avoid feature creep but at the same time I want to allow some feature creep, since those are usually the nicest features. Maybe next week I'll come up with a concrete roadmap for the next couple months.
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