About this site
pragmantra --Because all the other trademarks were taken.
This site is maintained by Rob Thijssen, a software developer and technical architect in the UK. It's a bit of a mashup that hosts some scripts to:
- display my blog and photos using Google's atom feeds
- publish some code that I think is exceptional
- screen-scrape my CV from my LinkedIn profile
- provide links to open source software and projects I am involved with
- provide a forum for some ideas that I need help with
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Styleshout
The site layout and css templates used on this site are based on a free template from Styleshout. I'm a programmer not a designer --everyone keeps reminding me.
Mono
This site was built in Visual Studio 2008 using Asp.Net and C# 3.5. It is hosted on a Debian, Apache web server using Mono.
I develop in C# because it is simple, powerful, modern and I just like it. I like using generics and I like the flexibility of the language.
The traditional downside to developing web applications on the .Net platform is the associated licensing costs for the various servers required by a typical web application.
This site is a performance and scalability experiment in combining some enterprise functionality (like enterprise library) with an open source hosting environment to see how viable the combination can be.