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Jul 21

Written by: jbonnie
Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:54:02 AM 

Becoming a better developer is a good theme for me, and I like the idea of looking out 6 months and setting some realistic goals for myself. So here goes:

Becoming a better developer is a good theme for me, and I like the idea of looking out 6 months and setting some realistic goals for myself. So here goes:

  1. Jump start my development practices with a Nothing But .Net Training class. I am signed up for a class in Washington, and JP announced plans for expanding the Nothing But Series.
  2. Continue to work with DotNetNuke and Subonic, both from an application development viewpoint, as well as looking uder the hood at some of the architectual and implementation decisions made by the open source teams.
  3. Post a blog series on building a few of my sample applications - writing the code is closer to Mort style, get the business problem solved, being able to write and talk about it, gets you a few steps up the Elvis Ladder.
  4. Get out and Talk/Interact with more developers. Support the new dotnet user group meeting at UCONN Stamford.
  5. At my current assignment I am the only dotnet developer, and it gets real lonely! I will be looking for another project in the fall, and getting a good environment with other like minded developers will be high on the list of selection criteria

In the spirit of passing this on, let's hear from Todd, and Don Demsak

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Thanks for stopping by. My name is Jim Bonnie and I have been writing software for over 20 years. After building financial data systems for Reuters for nearly 18 years I have started doing contract work and am excited about technology and currently focus on Microsoft solutions. DotNetNuke has helped provide a good introduction to ASP.NET web application development, and I am now starting to branch out into other areas. Data Access techniques and SubSonic is something that I am looking into now. This has helped me get an invitation to speak at Las Vegas at DNN Open Force 07. it was a great time. And I am looking forward to OpenForce08, where I wil be presenting on TDD for DNN.

 

Reading the codebetter blogs and attending a nothing but .net training class with JP Boodhoo helped spark my interest in ALT.NET. I attended the first conference in Austin Texas, and it was amazing to see Scott Guthrie introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.

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