I’m running into a little bit of a pickle here. Seriously, did I just say pickle? Anyway.

I’m in the planning stages for Ravsonic.tv, a place where I can share my video reviews, lifecasting, and all around video bullshitting with the world. I am currently trying to decide what technology I want to build it off of. I’m looking at Rails and .NET 3.5.

I like Rails because I know it. I’ve been doing various Rails things since 1.0. I really like a lot of the things in Rails 2 and I’ve not been given enough change to work with them yet. I’ve got a host already that supports Rails and the domain already points to the site. All I need to do is fire up InType on my PC and get to work.  Plus, I plan on purchasing a new portable computer this week. Most likely, it will be Apple flavored. I won’t have any problem coding Ruby on that thing.

Then we get to ASP.NET. In short, I love it. No, it isn’t as blissful as Rails is, but shit if it isn’t robust. I really, really, want to play with LINQ and I’ve got a feeling that I’m going to like the fancy new ways I can expose web services.  I feel much more at home in VS, and VS2008 is no different. I like that my code can be easily portable across other platforms (i.e. if I decide to turn a web app into an offline component, many times its as easy as copying the component’s DLL over.)  The only drawback is that if I get my Mac, I’ll be running bootcamp or parallels to run VS. Has anyone really run VS2008 in Parallels yet with a lot of success. I should probably look into it. I don’t have a .NET host yet, either, so that would be one more hosting related bill a month. Joy.

I really don’t know which I’ll choose. It really is almost a toss up at this point. I want to play in .NET, but I can get this done quickly in Rails. Decisions, decisions. Who knows, maybe I’ll switch over to Django again. That didn’t last very long last time, so probably not.

Wow, that was a lot of rambling. Sorry about that.