Thursday, September 29, 2005
Sunny Italy
Just had a very pleasant 4 days in Italy, went to Venice, Verona etc, a little humid I must say but the food was good and the wine was cheap:) Brought Jesse Liberty's book along with me, Programming C# 4th Edition, it's always worth reading over the fundamentals now and again just to refresh on the finer points. This books covers C# 2005 and version 2.0 of the .NET Framework; I did go on DevelopMentor's Guerrilla .NET 2.0 in March this year but thought it was worth a review on the subject seeing as the release of Visual Studio 2005 is now imminent....
Next book on the list to read is the seminal Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software, should have read this a while ago I know but at least I have got round to it now, or at least I will once I finish the book above! After reading some language specific books on the subject of design patterns and using some of them in the line of duty it will be good to get the definitive word on the subject...
My good friend James and I have some web servers\firewalls etc. to move soon, looks like we are going to move them to a co-located environment rather than have a high speed (and high cost!!!) dedicated line. It's looking very likely that we'll move them to Black Cat Networks, sensible pricing, one month contracts and no daft restrictions with sensible usage, will post again with details of how well (I hope!!) things go. The amount that can be learned from having you're own 'Web Environment' can't be underestimated, that and having control of your e-mail, your web server and being to source control over the web (SourceGear Vault) are all additional plus points, don't know how we managed prior to setting this environment up!!!
Next book on the list to read is the seminal Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software, should have read this a while ago I know but at least I have got round to it now, or at least I will once I finish the book above! After reading some language specific books on the subject of design patterns and using some of them in the line of duty it will be good to get the definitive word on the subject...
My good friend James and I have some web servers\firewalls etc. to move soon, looks like we are going to move them to a co-located environment rather than have a high speed (and high cost!!!) dedicated line. It's looking very likely that we'll move them to Black Cat Networks, sensible pricing, one month contracts and no daft restrictions with sensible usage, will post again with details of how well (I hope!!) things go. The amount that can be learned from having you're own 'Web Environment' can't be underestimated, that and having control of your e-mail, your web server and being to source control over the web (SourceGear Vault) are all additional plus points, don't know how we managed prior to setting this environment up!!!
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Numero Uno
Well, have to put at least something on here....
I am back on contract for 4 weeks at a client I finished a previous contract with at the end of June, 2 months summer holidays, nice:)
I did manage to take another MCP and get my MCAD.NET whilst I was not working, am now mulling over what exam I should take next to get my MCSD, do I do the security exam or do I take the SQL Server 2000 exam, a dilemma I can tell you! Some more pondering required I think......
I am back on contract for 4 weeks at a client I finished a previous contract with at the end of June, 2 months summer holidays, nice:)
I did manage to take another MCP and get my MCAD.NET whilst I was not working, am now mulling over what exam I should take next to get my MCSD, do I do the security exam or do I take the SQL Server 2000 exam, a dilemma I can tell you! Some more pondering required I think......
