Oh no. Another introductory post.

*ducking* OK I know. I'm sorry. Please stop throwing rotten fruit and garbage at me. I'll try to make this as quick as possible...

The Man

I develop custom business software for a small consultant in Erie, Pennsylvania as lead of small dev team, creating solutions on the Microsoft .NET platform (ASP.NET + C# + MS SQL). November 1^st will mark the seven year anniversary of my professional career. Before that, I was just another computer nerd lurking in his darkened room, making BASIC programs on his TRS-80, Apple IIc, Compaq Persario 66 MHz 486 with 4 MB of RAM... Turbo Pascal, C++, Java and finally a one year stint in college with Eiffel. My career has involved ASP (VBScript), HTML, Javascript, database design, T-SQL, IIS administration, MS SiteServer (*shudder*), VB6, XML... I dabbled with ASP+ (before MS renamed it to ASP.NET) and began developing production code with it almost as soon as VS.NET 2002 was gold. I have a ".NET guy" ever since.

The past two years have seen a renewed growth in learning and process improvement for me. I've been learning about and implementing many technologies and methodologies in the name of Quality... source control (Subversion), O/R mapping (NHibernate), refactoring (Resharper), continuous integration (CruiseControl.NET), code analysis (FxCop, SourceMonitor), OOP (design patterns, dependency inversion, SRP), unit testing (NUnit)... I'm still trying to come to terms with TDD, but I will keep at it until I "catch the bug." I'm sure there is plenty more I am forgetting to mention. About a year ago I took on the duties of project manager, which has added even more to my plate... customer management (requirements analysis, estimation, controlling scope creep) and helping my team stay productive (design meetings, code review, agile practices).

The Blog

The previous paragraph was intentionally buzz-word heavy. This is my reminder to myself as to why I'm blogging; these are the topics on which I might have something (useful? insightful? interesting?) to say. My goal for this blog is to post one or two quality posts per week on topics such as those above, being between one half and two pages of well formed English prose containing coherent (original?) thoughts. I also intend to comment more often on posts by fellow bloggers. I'm looking forward to doing my small part towards the enlightenment of the .NET community.

OK, that is all. You can resume the garbage tossing.