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Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Beta

maheshsingh — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:28:00 GMT

After 5 previews finally Microsoft released beta version of ASP.NET MVC. You can download ASP.NET MVC Beta "The ASP.NET MVC Beta release provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime." Learn more about...(read more)

More relaxing jobs are more dangerous: Economic Slowdown, JOB CUTs and Software Developer.

maheshsingh — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:21:00 GMT

There are serious economic meltdown in worldwide and everybody is affected. As a software developer we are also in same boat. We all are now thinking about Dos and Don'ts so that we can avoid or at least minimize the damage. While writing the article I am not sure (and cannot be in any case ;) ) what going to happened tomorrow morning or in next couple of weeks or months. But while thinking about all these horrible things I feel following things should be taken care for avoid damage.

The only think which can save the job in this kind of environment is "Your Criticality" in your task/project/assignments. More critical responsibility means more stable jobs and even when all goes well in future then more promotions, hikes etc.

If you are not having any critical tasks/assignments/project in your bucket then tries to grab it as soon as possible.

Some tips to be Critical Resource

     1.       Try to do participate in some extra curriculum activities of business (Do help in business guys to grab the project).

     2.       Do some techno social service in the project of next cubical (other teams).

     3.       Don't miss any opportunity to show off your technical skills to your manager.

     4.       Always try to finish your task within estimated time frame at least if not before.

     5.       Don't give any indication that you are not having interest in your current project (due to some maintains work, old technology, less learning opportunity, not happy with manager/pears/juniors etc.)

     6.       Don't even think to change your current job.

Apart from your criticality followings are important tips for personal improvement so that if anything goes wrong you can minimize the risk of not to have job.

     1.       Try to improve your technical skills (as .NET developer we can see lots of things are happening around like ASP.NET MVC, LINQ, Functional programming, JQuery etc. also getting idea about other programming language can also help as lot like Ruby on Rails)

     2.       Try to study some team management stuffs specially Agile, Scrum etc.

     3.       Do some original blog post, so that recruiters can have idea about your technical skills. It also improves your technical skills (In one of my interview, the recruiter asked most of the questions from my blog posts).

All these tips are just ideas which I normally have in my mind when I think about messy economic recursion now days.

This is late a late night post, might be I am not able to edit it properly.

Please put your comments to improve this post so that maximum people can get benefited in tough time.

Good night and have sweet dreams.

jQuery, ASP.NET, Visual Studio : Just Married

maheshsingh — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:49:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie today announced in his blog that Microsoft will ship jQuery support with Visual Studio, and they will provide a vanilla and "intellisense-annotated versions," allowing for complete cooperation with the usage of the package.

Also worth reading jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices

Nokia also decided to use jQuery as default library for his browser.

Does ASP.NET magically handle thread safety for you

maheshsingh — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:34:00 GMT

Excellent post written by benchr for thread safety of ASP.NET application you can view complete article from following link

Does ASP.NET magically handle thread safety for you

Hug a developer today

maheshsingh — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:11:00 GMT

Nice and funny video about pain of developers ... :)

God has always been planning things for me!!! (Inspirational)

maheshsingh — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:00 GMT

I just read truly inspirational story about a personal who does not have both legs, it is great to see, view and follow these kind of people.

http://specials.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/28sl1.htm

Part of weblog.asp.net community!!!

maheshsingh — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:14:00 GMT

I am much exited to be the part of weblog.asp.net community. It is my first blog on this community. I’ll try to post at least once in a week. My area would be ASP.NET, C#, Usability, Scrum, Agile and some other stuffs etc…