I am currently listening to
.Net Rocks, which in case you don't know is live (and recorded) talk shows about programming in .net put on by
Carl Franklin. I think Carl is doing a great job with the show and helping to build the .net developer community. The only problem I have with listening to his show is, I find it hard to read and type while listening to the show - because my brain wants to listen to the show not do other stuff...
I really like what
Scott Watermasysk has done with the .Text blog engine. In fact I have an interior blog site set up using .Text. I have been trying to get more people blogging, but it seems that some people get it and others don't. For you web developers out there, you should really check .Text out. Scott has posted the
source code on the web. It uses HttpHandlers all over the place. I really have to get into the code and figure it out. When I was helping
Dave Platt with his class (I was a teaching assistant), I helped write the code for a homework that used an HttpHandler to get an image out of a database. Really cool stuff.
I don't exactly remember when I started reading blogs, but I know I was a little late in the game compared to a lot of the other bloggers out there. I use
RSS Bandit for my aggregator. I am up to 132 feeds that I am reading. Everyone of those feeds can either be traced back to
Don Box's Blog or
Robert Scoble's Blog. In fact I think I found Scoble's link on Don's blog, but not sure. Since starting to read the blogs I have gotten a couple of other people at work reading some of the same blogs I do. A couple of weeks ago when Scoble was on vacation and not blogging, Ken and I were talking about how we missed Scoble's blog. We both knew he was on vacation (because we both read his blog)... the fact that we both knew he was on vacation was sort of an odd revalation (not sure what that says about us). Ken and I work in an IT department downtown Boston and Scoble is on the West coast (never can tell if he is in CA or WA). It is amazing what blogs have done to create a some-what virtual and real community around the globe.
The first week of March I am planning on taking the
Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, which will be my forth exam toward the MCSD. After I get the 70-229 out of the way I really need to focus on some project manager stuff, which should help with studying for the
Analyizing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .Net Solutions Architectures exam.
Some blogs I have just started to watch to help me get back into the project managment mindset: