So I upgraded to v2.5 of WordPress, and now I’m going to shift over to my martial arts websites… but I’m just about ready to begin the learning. Putting it off much longer isn’t in my interests, so I’ll probably start out with an ASP.net 2.0 refresher tomorrow.
A great question was posed: why blog this? Hell, no one is really going to read it anyway. It’s mostly for me, something extra to ensure I follow through with the experiment. If it doesn’t work, I can always blow it away and let the DNS expire into the internet cloud.
Meanwhile, I’ll keep plugging away. I’m finishing up some video for my company, and that takes a lot of CPU and diskspace. On my 500+ GB RAID0+1 setup I’m down to 2 GB free, dammit. So, it basically means I can’t fart around with VS 2008, which is where I’m going to start. I think I’ll start by going after the new features of 2008: LINQ, extension stuff, and so on. It seems like a reasonable place to begin.
I want to try dedicating up to 60 minutes in an evening to discover something I didn’t know about in the field of programming. I have so many other things going on (my wonderful wife and kids, my small business, my day job, overtime, exercise) that I find I have no time left for keeping up on things.
Well, if I could lay off the damn games for a while…
Anyway, I’m going to try to learn something new in 60 minutes or so, thus truly bending the title of the blog, but nonetheless get something done. It may take multiple “sessions”, but if I get good at this, maybe it’ll turn into something smarter.
This is the beginning of what I hope is an interesting project. Hopefully, this will benefit others in some fashion, but that isn’t my goal — it’s all about me. So the first thing I need to do is come up with some valid study points. Here’s what I would like to improve upon, in general:
I’m sure there’s more, but I’m tired. I’ll add to this if I think of others.