Learning process
I have written a lot of C# over the last two years but have felt that I need to go to the next level of .NET. For me the learning curve is really a stair case with differing sizes of steps. A while back I started a learning project - a distributed data acquistion system based on a Corba project that I did a while ago.
I have managed to get into security (encryption at least) and SOAP beyond the VS.NET users level. I can log into my project, be validated by a database and receive an encrypted ticket as a soap header. Then use log into other services using this ticket.
Works ok. Doesn't sound like much compared to most bloggers but it's a start. The next step is to define the Corba equivalent of name service - UDDI?