How does everything fit together and what is used for certain functionality.

This PDF is a quick guide to get yo going, click on the image to open a window to the orignal webpage.

written by Arné

Whilst reading through my feeds I found this post by a fellow South African developer, which is a link to a matrix of skills(and competencies) that can be used see where you stand in you “ELITE”-ness as a programmer.

Programmer Competency Matrix

written by Arné

Wow, what a week, I’ve checked my unread RSS feeds, and they are nearing the 600 mark, and I’ve actually read bitterly few during the past week.

This week was the first time I actually haven’t had time to actually just relax and sit back and read my mails, rss feeds and then go make myself a cup of coffee, this was a runaround like a headless chicken week. So here goes a roundup of my week off the top of my head.

Roundup of my week was :

• Started off Monday very calmly, then got news that I had to push out one of my pet C# projects, as clients are looking for something similar, so off back into Visual Studio and getting the devs out of SourceSafe(I won’t comment
• So I had do some documentation on the project, which I hat.
• Also we had our first KISS(Knowledge and Information Sharing Session) within one of the teams which I’m involved in. Was very informative and just showed how much my collegues know.
• Tuesday I found myself catching up on all those half-done jobbies that always keeps dragging and dragging and never gets to an end.
• On Tuesday evening I watched a very informative MSDN webcast relating to Sharepoint web parts.
• Wednesday started with one of my clients’ reporting a bug, conveniently just before billing and they need the stuff working asap to get their billing done.
• After fixing the problem, I went to the Microsoft Mobile event at Sandton Hilton… my opinion - very good food - MS developers are getting everything on a tray, they almost don’t have to do any code any more.
• Thursday I found myself going off to Pretoria for one of our premium clients, when I got their I could not continue working as …. their database fell over the previous evening…so back to the office to continue working on those dragging tasks that still needs to be completed.
• Friday, at last, saw me working on our internal Sharepoint imeplentation and discussion strategies for rolling it out into the company, security considerations and general discussion about the various ways of doing a single thing in Sharepoint.

So hopefully the coming week is going to be abit less hectic, which I doubt, already half my week is already booked out, and more and more work is streaming in.

Another short note, it’s again amazing how much work one gets done when your disconnected from the internet.

written by Arné

I’ve been involved in numerous technologies over the last 7 years, and can’t really believe, what I’ve been involved with:

• Visual Basic
• Delphi
• Java
• C++,C
• PHP
• C#
• Metastorm BPM

That’s just the programming languages, then their is the general list of standards,definitions structures types etc.

Then I’ve worked on numerous operating system as well:

• Netware
• Linux
• DOS
• Windows platforms

Database:

• SQL Server
• MySQL
• PostGreSQL

and can go on and on, but getting to the point ..
For the last year I’ve been exposed to alot of Microsoft technologies, and one of the newest product(for me) which got me excited is Sharepoint/WSS .

I’ve talked to my superiors and I will start focusing on building my skills on the Sharepoint / Groove front .

I’ve even already been signed up for training in the end of June, although I’ve already done alot of Research and Dev on company time.

I’m looking forward to this next step in my career, very exciting indeed.

written by Arné

I’ve been in the Software Development realm for about 5 years, and it has been along time since I’ve actually looked back at the theory behind the whole life of Software Development in general. Every now and again you just go back to the books just to check yourself and make sure that you are still on track.

Found a nice blog post revisiting Boehm’s Spiral Model to Software Development.

written by Arné