>It is possible to develop asp.net with the free version of Visual Studio Express that is intended for students and hobbyists. Buying licenses seems silly when there is a free edition.
Do check this out: http://www.mono-project.com/ASP.NET "Mono supports ASP.NET 1.0 and 1.1 completely and provides partial support for ASP.NET 2.0 features." Thanks! Koh Wei Jie On 10/24/07, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WJ Koh wrote: > > Hi Mr. Clark, > > You are right, the search field uses a boolean or by default. Thanks for > the heads up. > > "web and asp" 18 > "web and perl" 15 > > Even if ASP is the most popular here, I doubt that my polytechnic is being > very thrifty by purchasing of Visual Studio licenses for hundreds of > students at their partial (or full) expense. > > > I agree. It is possible to develop asp.net with the free version of Visual > Studio Express that is intended for students and hobbyists. Buying licenses > seems silly when there is a free edition. > > In any case Java appears to be more popular (at least for the people > recruiting on monster.com.sg). > > Also with Java you are not limited to just JSP (whereas most MS stuff I > see tends to be very ASP-centric). Even from just the Apache Software > Foundation there is a wide selection of mature open source Java web > frameworks such as Struts, Cocoon, Velocity, MyFaces, Tapestry and Wicket to > name a few. Not to mention Groovy on Grails that Stephan keeps telling me > about - apparently it is really groovy :) In fact I believe it is even > possible to run Ruby on Rails with jruby inside a Java VM allowing that > environment to benefit from the mature set of libraries for Java. > > BTW - Perl CGI programming is a very outdated methodology. If you want to > consider perl web programming consider something like Apache ASP: > http://www.apache-asp.org/ (which uses mod_perl - many times more > efficient than CGI). > > ~mc > > Koh Wei Jie > > On 10/24/07, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > WJ Koh wrote: > > > > Hi Mr. Clark, > > > > Thanks for the idea. I did some more searches on Monster.com.sg: > > > > "web java": 434 > > "web asp": 341 > > "web perl" 385 > > "web php" 331 > > "web python" 328 > > "web ruby" 326 > > > > > > This looks like it is "web or ..." as just "web" results in 325. > > > > They would logically have to be a subset of this if you wanted 'and'. > > > > So I don't think you can use these particular results. > > > > You would have to go back and search for "web and java" (their search > > engine handles 'and' keyword). e.g. > > > > java 180 > > web 325 > > "web and java" 70 > > "web and asp" 18 > > "web and php" 8 > > > > > > This is very interesting... > > > > Thanks! > > > > Koh Wei Jie > > > > On 10/24/07, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Wei Jie, > > > > > > The best way to find this out I believe is by looking at the job > > > market / job listings. This method is used often by analysts to gauge how > > > prevalent a particular platform is in the market - it makes sense that the > > > more prevalent technology has more job openings. > > > > > > Here is an example of some searches on monster.com.sg: > > > > > > java 180 > > > .net 90 > > > perl 76 > > > c# 66 > > > asp 35 > > > php 15 > > > ruby 4 > > > > > > Java at the top matches I have observed here in Singapore while doing > > > recruiting and also when looking at what technologies are being used to > > > develop enterprise web apps by the bigger developers (i.e. banks, > > > telcos, MNCs). Although these stats are not web app specific, it gives > > > you a > > > relative idea. > > > > > > ~mc > > > > > > > > > WJ Koh wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > My polytechnic offers a module in its IT course which teaches > > > server-side web programming in ASP.NET in VB. I am puzzled at the > > > rationale behind this, because this means that a ton of money will be > > > spent > > > on Visual Studio when Perl is perfectly fine for this purpose. I am under > > > the impression that Perl is the most widely-used CGI language, but it is > > > possible that my school uses ASP.NET because it's more widely-used in > > > Singapore. > > > > > > Is it true that the a majority of the industry in Singapore uses > > > ASP.NET the most for web apps? > > > > > > Thanks guys. > > > > > > Koh Wei Jie > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Slugnet mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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