Collaboration With A Contractor

Recently, I was asked to work with a contractor on a new project, due to time constraints with our client. The project is being developed with ASP.NET (C#), ajax, and SQL Server 2005.

The greatest thing I have gained from this experience is knowledge transfer. I have been able to learn a great deal from the contractor and the reciprocal is true as well. To be honest, I wasn't sure how well I would do, especially when I am used to developing by myself, and what my attitude would be. I surprised everyone, including myself, with the openness I displayed with the contractor.

This has been a truly great experience and has taught me to just be open minded and willing to better my professional attitude as well as career. I feel as though I have grown just a little bit from this endeavor...

...and it doesn't hurt to have a contractor with a great attitude!

Thanks for the experience.

The PowerShell CookBook « WebbTech Solutions

Date: 11/19/2010

I attended the Nashville SQL Server User Group meeting which featured Joe Webb as the guest speaker.  Joe gave a presentation of The Windows PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) with some examples.  There was an exuberant amount of knowledge shared at the group in regards to the capabilities and scenarios in which one could leverage the power of MS PowerShell.

…I am off to experiment with some of the examples!

The PowerShell CookBook « WebbTech Solutions

NUnit Testing

Tonight I attended a user group meeting that demonstrated unit testing .NET applications, Forms and so on.... I've read the books concerning unit testing, and have attended various platforms that discussed the topic of unit testing, and I am still unconvinced of the benefits of unit testing! More thoughts on this later...

Forget it...

Forget my last post, I was delusional trying to think I would be satisfied on a windows box. No, no, I am happily back on Ubuntu 64 bit, and so far, its been better than before.

Now, I just need to dive deeper into PHP, Joomla, and MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Wish me luck!

Back to Windows...

I have reverted back to Windows. This time I am using Vista 64 bit, and so far so good!

Linux continued...

It has been 5 months now, and I have not turned back to MS. I enjoy my Ubuntu box too much. Interestingly I have been able to mimic much of the functionality of a Mac computer using document centric capabilities. The most noticeable difference is the speed. Linux keeps on humming and does not have to deal with a bloated registry with phantom entries that lead to nowhere.

The WORLD is Open Source...

So now I have fully made the switch to Linux! My experience has been very interesting. I have written some shell scripts in !bash, played around with the plethora of packages that come with this particular distribution, and find myself comparing the overall logic in user interaction as compared with Windows. ...more to come on this topic!