I've had my own business since 2003 but since starting Enjoy Online Ltd in 2007 I've found myself working in PHP most of the time.  There are times when I admire the simplicity of PHP - like when I used to program in classic ASP but to be honest, I count the hours until I can write something in C#.

I know that my knowledge of PHP is limited because I've only been using it since 2006 but I wouldn't use the language out of choice.  In the main, my customers have wanted something in PHP because of some plug-in or server restriction or hosting costs.  I now run have two of my own VPS (one on Windows 2003 and one on Ubuntu) so I have more freedom to push a customer in the .NET direction.  My designer develops in PHP however so to keep my developer busy on larger projects, I have to use PHP.  For smaller projects we can combine the design and development quite nicely with me doing all the development in .NET.

I must admit that .NET has been lagging behind the PHP crowd when it comes to sharing usable plug-ins and scripts.  Quite often although you can get hold of a ready-made control or script it will cost you (or cost you more) when you are using .NET.  When I get the time I will be putting up some of my work that I think would benefit others in the community but in all likelyhood there won't be much PHP script going up because there's already a glut of scripts and posts about pretty much everything you would want to do - or at least most of what I've required as I have been bettering myself.

So the reason for this post?  Basically I am hoping that in 2-3 months I can turn around and say "I do 75% of my work in .NET", or that in 2-3 months it won't be a day that I've come home and cursed other developers for their crazy coding in PHP.