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Piehead recently blogged "Why startups could use .NET but don't". Since Showcase Lane is written in ASP.NET MVC I thought I'd share why I chose this route and and how it turned out in the end.

"I've installed the certificates already!" Jumping through hoops to make Mono talk to Gmail.

Today I looked into using Lighttpd for an ASP.NET site I'm running under mono... goodbye Apache.

Oh! Distributed transaction don't work under Mono. What's the workaround?

Image re-sampling with Mono's default GDI implementation is pretty poor. Luckily ImageMagick saves the day.

To save a thousand google searches next time I setup a Mono web development machine I thought it might be a good idea to just write down the steps...