I’ve been doing .NET for a long time. I started working on it exactly when .NET 2 was out, so I was lucky to avoid .NET 1 (almost) completely. I love .NET and C#. I think it’s not a coincidence that the main person behind it is the same person who was behind my favorite products when I was a teenage coder: Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal and Delphi. There is some sort of inexpressible similarity, I think, that reflects the designer’s choices in the framework and the language.

During my previous attempt to install Ruby on Rails on Windows 8 I ran into a couple of issues. I decided to try again with the latest and greatest and see what happens.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve written in the blog. I don’t do much programming at home these days, so the various pet projects I’ve published here over the time are idling. Instead, I’ve been working out a bit more than usual. In fact, for the first time in my life, I’ve taken quite a liking to running.

I had some problems installing Ruby on Rails on Windows 8 so I’m writing this down as a summary.

Here’s a short update on what I’ve been working on. Time is a bit limited but I like to hack around in this project and that’s what it’s all about!

In the latest commit on BlogEngine.NET MVC, which is always available here, the following have been added:

It’s not difficult to implement a basic login system. BlogEngine.NET comes with its own membership and roles providers, so all we need to do is create a controller that uses the standard Membership features of .NET.

So, to share a bit more of my excitement, here’s a screenshot of the classic ASP.NET and the MVC versions running side by side:

Finally, I got to play with ASP.NET MVC for a real project at work. I really enjoyed it, but it lasted only for a few weeks.

Version 1.2.0 of w3c-nant was released today. This version contains some improvements submitted by Rob Richardson: