July 7th, 2008

I have been trying to get straight in my head what I want to become proficient at in order to be a useful software developer for the next three years. It’s proving really difficult. I’ve always felt that, as a professional working every day cranking out code for real clients on real projects, it is very difficult to keep up with what keeps falling out of Microsoft. I have to say I don’t think they do that good a job in helping us committed and loyal Microsofties do that, especially those of us who haven’t the time or money to attend conferences, or don’t live in the M4 corridor (UK specific reference there).

Here’s my (unfinished) list:

Things that are a given - that I need to know
Silverlight
ASP.Net latest version

The side-road stuff that I think will make a difference:

CSLA latest version
AJAX for ASP (although I hope that using a UI toolkit like Telerik or Infragistics may allow me to enter a layer up the stack)
Code generation - I’ve been keen on this for ages but never found a practical implementation I liked, but more on this soon.
WPF/Acropolis/Prism - having used the WinForms CAB I wan’t to get my head around the latest generation stuff for the desktop.

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