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There I was, so happy with myself. ProjectDistributor was ticking along nicely and I was oblivious to the fact that I - being the bonehead that I am - had totally broken the Contact forms which are attached to the individual Projects.  It obviously broke late last week when I turned ViewState off for most of the pages.

There's a Bedouin proverb which goes like this:

The other day I mentioned that I was on the cusp of an important decision regarding my career and implied - via my favourite piece of poetry - that there were 2 distinct paths that I could take.  After asking some colleagues for advice I was pointed towards a wonderful parable titled "Buridan's ass":

I downloaded and installed PostXING today:

OK, so you are talking with a client and a couple of their developers when they client turns to you and says: "We've heard a bit about SOA, what is it exactly?".  You've got 3 minutes... GO!

When creating project plans make sure that you define some interim milestones for the development phase.  Interim milestones allow the development team to see measurable progress and provide key stakeholders with visibility about the progress of the project.  Interim deliverables are also used to keep bottlenecks to a minimum and to reduce complexity when it comes to things such as testing and regression testing.

The Road Not Taken has long been my favourite piece of poetry because of its darkness and its deep sense of nostalgia.  I read it whenever my life reaches an important juncture as I search for meaning and answers to unanswerable questions...

ProjectDistributor is now pretty stable and nearly feature complete for iteration 1.  This application was created as a place to store small or trivial pieces of code.  Either code which was expensive to create - such as a prototype - or code which will be useful again in the future - such as a macro, server control or stored procedure.