Ionrock Dot Org

This week I have been taking a class on Web Services using .NET. The teacher is really great and understands everything in a very intimate way. It has been very interesting so far but it is a lot to take in for only one week. The other side of things that is somewhat frustrating is the Microsoft lock in. I have never been that much of a rebel but MS really makes me feel like I am in prison. There is nothing explaining how anything works so if you don't use Visual Studio then you are stuck. This is ridiculus because it is all just text. I should be able to use whatever editor I want and I should not have to depend on stupid wizards to create crappy code. It is very frustrating. The worst thing about it is the extremely long and verbose class library. It is full of functionality but it also forces you to use something like Visual Studio. There is no way you are going to remember all the XMLValidatedReader, System.XML.Services.somethingelse.yetanotherthing, and all the others that I can't remember. It is just too much.

This is the main thing I enjoy about php, it is easy to see what you can do with the existing libraries. Python has also been relatively easy to see what you can do as well. In any sense, I am excited to learn C# but all the MS hooks are daunting. It makes me just want to fight the man...

By the way, I don't want work where I have to do a lot of travel. I just can't sleep without Lauren. I have been going to bed early and just laying in bed. I am consistantly going to bed around 4:00 am with a wake up around 5:30 am. This is getting me sick I think which is pretty crappy. Oh well, I am coming home soon love!