New Job, New Blog

So I joined a new consulting firm last month and I'm just now getting my personal blog operational. Some of the delay is attributable to a horrendous case of the flu for most of February; some of the delay was caused by a rapid ramp up for a new potential client looking for a solution proposal in short order; mostly I was just busy getting to know my way around the company and MOSS 2007.

I find the process of blogging to be extremely beneficial when I need to retain the low-level understanding of a new technology explored on a weekend long deep dive and also as an exercise in technical writing that keeps the writing juices flowing for that next short-turnaround RFP response. The subjects I intend to explore in the next few months will not be entirely new for me, but I hope to uncover some new dimensions of the following tools:

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (and WSS 3.0)
• ASP.Net AJAX
• The ADO.Net Entity Framework (and other ADO.Net 3.5 techologies)
• Visual Studio 2008
• Windows Server 2008
• SQL Server 2008
• Silverlight 2.0 & WPF

I know there will be insufficient time to dedicate to all of these endeavors, but I think all of these offerings from Microsoft promise to enable .Net developers to deliver distinctive solutions.