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As my Microsoft job sub­tlety changes at the begin­ning of July, it is self-development time!

Next year involves more cycles devoted to devel­op­ment ‘themes’. A change that I am

Fol­low­ing sage twit­ter advice from Christy Dena, the diary is locked and loaded. Every Monday and Fri­day are hard alloc­ated to self-development.

Self-development relies on self-control.

To aid the tem­pa­tion of twit­ter, email, rss feeds, wee­war, TV, cats and gen­eral out­side inter­rup­tions: I am a stick­ler for not mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ing this 40% time. Secondly, there will be a blog/wiki post that will detail the daily activ­it­ies. 40% time full transparency.

The gen­eral themes:

• Win­dows Server 2008 as Web Development/Web Host backend
• SQLServer 2005/8 as datastore
• C#
• ASP.NET
• HTML/Ajax/Silverlight
• DLR; Iron­Py­thon and IronRuby