Here is my story as a developer. I started out playing on Commodore 64 in elementary school. I would have to give a lot of credit to the Librarian at Valleyview Public School. He had allowed me to work with him, set up computers and actually spend time on the computers. Continue reading My Story
Category: Visual Basic
French and Other Language Characters – Classic ASP
Recently working with PayPal and Classic ASP I stumbled unto a problem where French characters were being encoded and displayed as unreadable text. It turns out that PayPal returns the result to you using UTF-8. In C# this would be an easy fix. Language characters can be tough in classic ASP. I had searched for quite a while until I found the following code: Continue reading French and Other Language Characters – Classic ASP
What Languages do I Use
I was recently asked what I use to develop software and websites. I mostly use DotNet Technologies as it is often interchangeable between websites, web applications and desktop applications. I can often use the same data access classes and business logic between multiple platforms. I find that DotNet allows me to easier structure objects visually and logically. I prefer to develop using C-Sharp, but I get requests to use VB.NET and J-Sharp on a regular basis.
When I went to college, I had learned C, Pascal, COBOL and some Mainframe language that I cannot remember. Upon graduating I taught myself VisualBasic 3, RPG. My first programming job was Visual COBOL. I had created a company in the Caribbean Islands programming public utility and insurance software in RPG. I can honestly say since I sold my shares of the company, I cannot foresee myself developing in RPG again.
Why don’t I use PHP? Well I do use PHP, but for specific purposes and upon request by a customer. A specific purpose is when I create a WordPress site or other content driven sites. I will not often create a website or web application from scratch using PHP as Microsoft made ASP.NET easy for rapid development.
Do I use JAVA? Yes; I do believe there are cases where JAVA is still relevant. JAVA is still a good tight platform for developing small single purpose applications. I have used JAVA 3 times in the past 2 years for applications that I believe fit the bill well.
Now, I am curious; What do you use and why?