.net on Mac?
One thing nice about Mac OS X are the avenues for development. There is Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, C, Objective C, java, javascript, applescript and shell, just to name some of the possibliities. One of the things I have always wanted to be able to do, was to write .asp and test it on Mac OS X. While I’ve yet to find a free open source way to do that, there is now a way to develop for C# .Net applications on Mac OS X. It is a project called mono. Mono is a Unix implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Development Framework. Currently it is a ASP.NET 1.0 framework, but ASP.NET 2.0 is in the works. If you are a hard core .NET programmer, this will probably not be a satisfactory way to go. Get a PC with Microsoft Visual Studio. But for somebody who is on Mac OS X this is a nice way to wade into .NET development.
Oreilly has a book out called Mono Developer’s Notebook to help you learn how to use mono.
On another note, my previous post disucssed my frustration with spam comments on my blog. I’ve re-enabled comments on a per message basis for a while to test a new spam blocking feature I am trying. If you are a legitimate commenter, I would love to hear from you.