I was afraid at the beginning that my Short stint at a Consultancy would have had a negative impact on my technology skills. But thank god it has not happened as I’m still eager and hungry to go after anything new or interesting to learn. Naturally I’m a good reader and when a requirement comes for me to grab a new idea i never looked back.

So these days, I’m reading a good book by Ingo Rammer at Thinkteckture on .NET Remoting, and another book is yet to be started on Advanced Threading. Both these are on the Job Requirements at Zone24x7. Apart from that I got involved in some Unit Testing work as well which requires me to learn more on NMock. So has some reading to be done in there as well. I think It would be very difficult to move forward in Unit Testing some of our Mobile Applications without a proper understanding on Mock Object Utilization as the code is heavilly interacting with other classes. So testing in Isolation is never gonna be easy here.

Since I have explained my on the job reading/study assignments let me tell you what I read/study for sheer enthusiasm. First I want to get deeper into the .NET Micro Framework which so far is an ellusive target due to lack of reading/study material. So my random playing with the Micro Framework SDK is not currently taking me anywhere. But I’m happy to continue until such time I come across a book.Then I want to know more about Workflows. There should be a good reason for Microsoft to go bang bang with WWF, WCF(Indigo) and WPF and I need to find why. These are part of Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 as well. So I have an Idea to deep dive into WWF and see for myself and I have the book with me. Knowing the future directions in my industry is a must and when a company like Microsoft pours millions into something, it’s worth noticing that.

So here I am. I have got a hell of a lot to do and before everything I need to manage my time. But I truly enjoy what I’m doing and as hungry as ever.