What I plan to do this year to become a better coder!
Jan
12
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:04 PM
What are YOU planning on doing this year to become a better developer? Don't have any plans? Then don't criticize me for having mine. LOL Even though this is more for me, if you want to check these out, fantastic! Read on!
Last year, I started a "What I plan to do to become a better coder" series, and I think it worked out quite well IMHO!
This year, I'm going to expand on certain areas, and focus less on others. This is more of a general checklist upon which I'll be periodically blogging about updates. So keep your browser/RSS feeds peeled on this engaging topic! LOL Ya, I thought that was funny to type/read too! LOL
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1. Learn about unit testing with Visual Studio and use at work |
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2. Participate in the Ottawa IT Days 2010. I want to help organize and present. |
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3. Participate in a local WPF/SL workshop (ala Samedi.NET in MTL). |
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4. Participate in a WPF certification study group. |
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5. Complete two screen savers (with MSI, with WPF, and network connectivity). |
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6. Present twice at ODNC. Working ideas are WPF .net new to compare WPF with WinForms and ASP.NET, and VS 2010 from a developers perspective. |
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7. Help organize Web certification study group. |
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8. Create APCM Archive Viewer in WPF at work. Dev and demo. |
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9. Create APCM RSS feed for work. |
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10. Create Candidates utility for work (in WPF). |
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11. Create blogs about these topics
- Federated Searches
- Creating RSS feeds
- Serialization Series
- Win7 Code pack
- Taskbars
- Folders
- Jump Lists
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12. Become comfortable with WPF/SL/XAML/Blend. |
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13. Become a "goto guy" for VS 2010. |
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14. Reply to EVERY comment people make on my blog postings. |
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15. Continue to focus on learning for this blog! |
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16. Update my DNN to 5.0 |
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17. Participate in the update of the ODNC website. |
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18. Update my site to DNN 5.0 |
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19. Update ODNC to DNN 5.0 |
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20. Surround myself with positive people! |
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Past Updates: NA
Past Reviews: Jan 2010
1 comment(s) so far...
Re: What I plan to do this year to become a better coder!
Found on Jason Haley's Interesting Finds: January 13, 2010
http://jasonhaley.com/blog/post/2010/01/13/Interesting-Finds-January-13-2010.aspx
Thanks Jason! Much appreciated!
By phenry on
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:19 PM
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