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T40T, 6th June 2008 to 9th June 2008

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

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Time to start C# familiarisation, this long weekend is the weekend to start. My guide is the book: “Pro C# 2008 and the .Net 3.5 Platform” written by Andrew Troelson
Having last been semi-professional in Java about 10 years ago, there are many similarities. But lots of new platform learnings. Unix shell, paths and [...]

T40T, 12 May 2008

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Install Windows Server 2008, SQLServer2005 into Virtual PC 2007

My previous application development platform experience is LAMP, so this Windows Server 2008 stuff is going to be fun!
Installation to a fresh VirtualPC took less than 15 minutes.
Only 6 updates required post install of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Added Application Server, Web Server (IIS), File [...]

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Monday, May 12th, 2008

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 [...]