First quick update on my family situation. My daugther is fine, no more bleeding. Thank you all for support.

Her results came in. It is a form of a bacterial infection that is supposedly causing the bleeding. I am noping that her hearing will not be affected.

 

Now back to the topic ...

 

I have been  developing in J2EE, Java and Web technologies now for about eight years, but this is my first experience using

ASP.NET, SQLServer and C# from begining to end (.NET 2.0).

 

As the project is wrapping up I must say that I am utterly impressed by the framework and capabilities of the tool.

 

Project started little bit rocky. I managed to crash my Windows on the laptop twice by using WIA.

That was a little but surprise knowing how difficult would be to crash the operating system on for example Solaris or Linux.

 

I was worried that I might be heading for some nasty surprises, and that I might be dealing with the wrong technology.

 

My worries did not materialize.

 

 

As I was moving through the project I discovered that MS Express tools are quite powerful,

that .NET framework is very rich and incredibly easy to work with, and that

there is plenty of documentation for everything I was trying to do (e.g. Working with WIA, motion recognition,

Web Services, Timers, ASP.NET components, ...).

 

I found MSDN documentation and specially Code project web site extremly helpful.

 

Of all the things the only flakey part of the whole project was this site.

Sometimes the blog edit interface would not work, sometimes the layout would look crazy in Firefox,

sometimes, like right now, the fonts on the editor would not look right.

Maybe all of that happened because I use IE 7 or Firefox.

 

Another issue was my orthodox use of CSS. Explorer and Firefox simply could  not agree to render things in the

same way. For that reason I had to tone down the use of orthodox CSS and fancy UI features.

 

All in all, with few days of the project left I feel pretty good about the overall project experience.

Actually, I feel great about it.