WynApse

Today is the day, or maybe it was yesterday, depends on how you look at it.

June 13, 2005 I came off being out of work for 2-1/2 months and transitioned from being a win32/PlatformSDK/MFC Guru to being able to find my way around in .NET 1.1/C#/Crystal Reports/MS Access/Oracle. The company that hired me took somewhat of a risk that I could do what I said and when the 6 months was up, the customer bought in for another, then another, etc. and so here we are today banging on the front door of a 4th year.

I've gotten good at what I do inside the confines of these applications and am transitioning two major web apps to .NET 2.0. I've not gotten good enough to answer interview questions on .NET apparently, as was tested out in December :)

Silverlight blew into my world 18 months ago and has sucked up all available free time... I don't even remember how I used to spend time away from here prior to early December, 2006.

All-in-all this is a good gig... I've got a good relationship with the customer, and don't generally have anyone breathing down my back. On the downside, it is absolutely solo... so I have nobody to bounce ideas or problems off, and nobody to challenge me like my buddy Bill used to do e.g. "I can write that code in xxx lines" :)

The frustration factors still exist such as: gas over $4 and having to drive 54 miles round-trip on what we call 'freeways'. Or not being able to view technical blogs at Blogspot, or spaces.live.com, or just any place they block such as FranksWorld.com -- sorry Frank! Ads that are served from some places throw up a forbidden banner, forget images that are served up from flickr or webcasts posted on youtube, or any similar places. Add to that list tinyrul or any of those sorts of things, any sort of P2P site such as twitter or IM. Oh... and personal email or webmail!

But, I continue to learn and be productive and they pay me pretty well, so hey... it's *way* better than checking bags at the door of Wal*Mart or asking if you 'want fries with that' and the older you get, the closer you get to those positions :)

So I'll just walk on through this door into year 4 on-site and...