So, I thought I’d ease into what will (hopefully) be another flurry of posting activity with a quick update on what’s been going on here recently. If you’ve read through earlier posts on this blog then you may well know that I started working at bit10 in September 2007. I’ve had a fantastic time working at bit10; I’ve learned a great deal and met many people with whom I’m hoping to keep in contact. However, as with all things, I think that it’s become time to move on.
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Having just completed a relatively large project using the newly released ASP.Net MVC Framework, I thought this would be a good time to post my thoughts on the framework. I have to say that the bulk of my experience with MVC framework comes from my time using Ruby on Rails, so many of my perceptions will be coloured by this.
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If anyone had asked me how to put these three things together a week ago, I would have cringed; my next reaction would be to suggest upgrading to PHP5, using Apache, and one flavour or another of Linux. Unfortunately that wasn’t possible at this point so, armed with the usual developer tools (that is, the F1 key and Google), I set out to get things set up… after all, how hard could it be? Read the rest of this entry
Being my first “official” certification, I figured I’d give it a mention. A couple of weeks ago I got sent down to London to do some developer training for a CMS that we’re going to be using quite a bit at the company I work at. At some point, there’s also going to be some interesting work porting existing customer sites to the Sitecore platform. Read the rest of this entry
Well, I’ve reached the two week mark at bit10. I’m quite impressed with myself.
So far, I’m really having a great time (always good where jobs are concerned), and the people are really nice too. The pub lunches, and trips to nice places like Alton Towers help too though Read the rest of this entry
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