Summary of the year 2006

It is already a tradition to do an opening post that sums up what I have been up to in my professional development in the past year.

It was a pretty interesting year! Finishing off my first project for my (not so new) company, completing another small one, and joining a long-term challenging project (the biggest one in my career). And some coding 4 fun :)

The biggest change for me this year was entering the world of web programming. ASP.NET made the transition from desktop to web programming pretty smooth, but still there is so much too learn. Using .NET 2.0 and VS.NET 2005 for nearly a full year was valuable experience as well and a pretty enjoyable one, as well.

My skill improvements program this year included learning touch typing. I think that the hours invested in it already paid off pretty well.

A couple of computer books that I read and found interesting were Working Effectively With Legacy Code and Balancing Agility And Discipline.

I also kept investing a lot of time to improve my tools at work (see here, here, here and here).

I have neglected blogging recently since I am prefer to focus on other activities, but this blog is by no means dead. Reducing the fluff and getting to the stuff. Still, I am still an avid blog reader.

I wish everyone a happy, fun, prosperous new year!