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Someone somewhere on the internet said it was good to keep a blog.  I thought I'd try to create my own site but it's taking too long, to get it up and going so in the meantime here's this one.

The issue I'm having with the site is deployment.  I've been trying to do it in Visual Studio using Cytanium as a hosting provider.  That problem is many fold but in a nutshell there's too many areas that are incompatible.  The challenge is to get everything talking to each other all the elements pointers pointing at the right places.

First it was VS 2010 wasn't compatible with SQL 2012.  So I upgraded to VS 2012 but it comes with .NET 4.5 which isn't supported by Cytanium.  Then there's the database choice, SQL, SQL Express and SQL compact.  All the tutorials for deploying a VS project start with compact and then convert to Express, but all the changes made to the transformation files, the web.config files are half done manually and other places done automatically by VS so you don't know what is modifying what and where.  It's like this black box with holes in it.  And to get you to fix somethings by poking a screw driver into it.  So you don't know what you're fixing where or how it's connected to the other parts.  I'd rather have it all open or all closed.  Not half and half.  And then to get all the different parts on the same platform.

I have become quite attached to the MVC model.  

But in the back of mind the whole time I wish I was using open source components.  MS has a habit of sucking you into there products and making you dependent on all their software.  I feel like their new baby is Azure and everything about the three seems geared to get you to sign up for Azure, create a profile and let them take care of everything.  

But after months of no success with MS, I'm fed up.

Now I'm looking into CodeIgniter or Parse.