I recently decided to cash in my company stock options and take the summer off to focus full-time on the latest generation of Windows development technologies (WPF/WCF/WF/LINQ/Blend etc.) and maybe pick up a few MCPD certifications, before looking for someplace new to put it all to good use.  I've actually worked with WPF/WCF and Blend off and on, beginning with early CTP builds, over the last 18 months, but now I'm ready to dig a little deeper, and the timing seemed right to get a jump on what I think will be some fundamental changes to the way companies staff and organize Windows development projects, going forward.

I started out writing applications in C for a software development shop in Japan, did alot of work in C++/MFC, and some DirectX, at two Silicon Valley startups, and have been working with C# and Windows Forms ever since the release of .Net 1.0 five years ago.  My experience has been almost exclusively with desktop and client-server applications, with web projects limited to a few experiments with personal sites (like this one).  Although I took a couple intro. to CS courses at CAL (Berkeley), my degree was actually in Asian Studies, and I learned to program "in the trenches".  I was also the .Net evangelist at my most recent company, authoring internal white papers on .Net, sending out a weekly ".Net FYI" e-mail, conducting .Net training, and sweating the truth out of job candidates who claimed to have .Net experience (You'd be amazed at the number of Silicon Valley engineers who list "three years of C#" on their resumes, who are unable to explain how to hook up a simple event handler, or identify basic terms like "reflection", "attributes" -- or "Richter" and "Löwy").

After years of preaching the need to monitor dev. community RSS feeds, and this extra time on my hands, how could I possibly NOT have a blog of my own?  So, here I am, injecting my drivel into the spew, with a site I expect will feature some combination of comments on development technologies and the trend toward more agile development practices, sprinkled with accounts of management inanity that I suspect will seem all too familiar...

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