Powered by Mono?

OK, it’s not true yet, but it will be…

I’ve decided to live by the phrase

Eat your own dog food

and switch my personal site over to Mono. I can hardly go around extolling the virtues of Mono for web applications when I run a PHP-based CMS can I?

Of course it is very early days yet, and I’ve got a long way to go before I can replace Textpattern fully. What I can do though is re-implement the presentation layer, so that is where I have started…

Show me something!

After some experimentation today. I have now got an ASP.NET page up and running that talks to my MySQL database that stores the Textpattern data. You can view it here – go try it out!

Update

I’ve revised the page somewhat, blending it with the rest of my site, adding more information and changing controls.

Decisions, decisions

I’m not sure whether I’ll remain with MySQL – PostgreSQL provides the features (Stored Procedures, Triggers) that I’m already used to developing with/for on MS SQL – it seems stupid to me to go back to building SQL statements on the fly. I know MySQL has/will have these, but PostgreSQL has them now.

Besides, if I make that switch I can keep the LAMP acronym – it will just mean Linux Apache Mono PostgreSQL instead of Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Python/Perl.