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Hi! I'm Milan Negovan (here's how I pronounce my name).
The mission of this site is to promote both ASP.NET and web standards.
I got my hands on ASP.NET shortly after its debut at PDC 2000 and have been coding for .NET ever since. After many thousands of read pages of documentation and books, mountains of pizzas and rivers of Coke, I decided to put my experience to work and share it with other developers and designers.
Even though I'm an ardent follower of Microsoft, I'm neither a Microsoft employee nor a consultant.
This site is structured as follows:
I love poking around under the hood of ASP.NET. Often times I wish certain subjects were covered better in documentation and on the web in general. ASP.NET is very powerful and learning its internals is a ton of fun. Please let me know if you're interested in some specific topic.
I cannot stress enough the need of educating yourself about web standards. That's something that is badly overlooked among developers and mostly preached by designers. On this site I'll try to bridge this gap as much as possible. Therefore, the Resources section provides useful links for developers, software architects and designers.
I love books. On average I buy one or two books a month and actually read them. I encourage you to post reviews and recommendation of your favorite books.
The site is written completely in C#. Since ASP.NET 1.x did not produce markup that was clean enough for validation, some "page fudging" needed to take place to force compliancy.
The inner workings are pretty exciting as a wide range of technologies is used to power this site—ADO.NET, XML, SQL Server, HttpModules and HttpHandlers, an HTTP response filter, user controls, viewstate encryption and validation, and so forth. This site tries to use web standards. It renders pages in the XHTML 1.0 Strict mode.
While designing this site I drew inspiration from the PGA Open Championship site designed by Todd Dominey.
All work on this site is licensed under a BSD license which means you may use my code and/or binaries for commercial purposes. The license is very liberal, but it is a license nonetheless so make sure you read it.
My designer and developer OPML feed subscriptions are available for grabs.
