In our previous episode, ASP.NET was shocked to discover IIS extensions for PHP in the Windows operating system. ASP.NET cried, "Please do not leave me, I am "open-source" too; just ask DotNetNuke!" Microsoft responded, "I am sorry, my love; for it has to be this way." ASP.NET shrieked sobbingly, "But I've compiled on-demand at runtime for you all these years! We share the same base classes and you ... you've chosen spaghetti code over me!"
Microsoft is having a sordid love affair with an open source street urchin—a wanderer—a bad boy that wants to bring us back to the "spaghetti code" days. Microsoft is in love with PHP. If you don't believe me, go to the official IIS/PHP website. {...Staney whispers, "They even have a website together!"} Microsoft is spending a boatload of money on marketing PHP on IIS. The question is, why?
More than ten years ago Microsoft drove the nail in the proverbial coffin of its own ASP/VBScript platform—telling us all just how *bad* and naughty spaghetti code was. They told us we had to leave our beloved inline angle brackets and percent signs for ASP.NET—or else. And now... it seems they have changed their minds.
Dios mio!
Perhaps they're in love with the shebang. Perhaps they think that angle brackets snuggled up to curvaceous question marks looks damn sexy.
Cliffhanger music plays...
Stay tuned to see the unfolding saga between ASP.NET and Microsoft. Will Microsoft kick buds Infragistics and Telerik to the curb for Drupal? Will Microsoft come to its senses, see the error of its ways and embrace the global assembly cache once again? Will PHP leave Linux for Windows—once and for all—and promise to never return? Will IIS7 *ever* be easier to operate than the space shuttle? Will love prevail—or is this just a fleeting moment of spaghetti code lust? Stay tuned.
About Tim Staney
Tim Staney has more than ten years (since 1997) of web development experience building enterprise-grade web applications for Fortune 500, small business and not-for-profit enterprises across the United States and Canada over a wide-range of industries. Tim specializes in information architecture, content management with a keen focus on user experience, and social media integration.
Tim Staney is a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida and active member of his community.
Staney regularly presents to professional and community groups, speaking on social media, social marketing, web content management and web strategy.
Tim Staney is a member of the American Marketing Association and <uwebd />, University Web Developers as well as the St. Peter's Episcopal Cathedral Communications Task Force. Tim is the Web Content Manager at St. Petersburg College working for the Marketing and Public Information department managing content in the college's Ektron content management system. Tim also teaches courses like Social Marketing for Small Buisness and Designing Effective Websites for St. Petersburg College's Learn to Earn program.
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