Stephen's Plan to Suck Less (at Software Development)
Stephen's Knowledge Portfolio Development
| Principle | Goal | Target |
| Study other articles | Study 'Design Principles and Design Patterns' | 9 August 2009 |
| Microsoft Certification | 4+ hours exam study () | Week ending 23 August 2009 |
| Keep stuff in brain | Update exam question recordings | 16 August 2009 |
| Study magazine articles | Study July's MSDN magazine articles | 16 August 2009 |
| Study magazine articles | Study August's MSDN magazine articles | 30 August 2009 |
| Study a book a quarter | The Pragmatic Programmer | End of October 2009 |
| Learn one new language a year (and do something useful with it) | Perl | End of 2009 |
| Microsoft Certification | Pass 70-528 exam | End of 2009 |
| Study a book a quarter | The Mythical Man Month | End of January 2010 |
| Study a book a quarter | Code Complete 2 | End of April 2010 |
| Microsoft Certification | Pass 70-562 exam | End of June 2010 |
| Microsoft Certification | Pass 70-564 exam | End of 2010 |
| Attend local user group events | Keep an eye on Intergen events, Christchurch .NET User Group and Canterbury Software Cluster events. | (On going) |
| Read blogs | Keep reading Coding Horror. | (On going) |
| Podcasts | Keep listening to Stack Overflow's podcast. | (On going) |
| Learn new stuff | SOLID Principles | |
| Learn new stuff | Unit testing (NUnit?) | |
| Learn new stuff | Build something with Microsoft MVC framework | |
| Learn new stuff | Build something using jQuery | |
Completed Goals
| Principle | Goal | Target |
| Microsoft Certification | 6+ hours exam study (5.9 H) | Week ending 16 August 2009 |
| Microsoft Certification | 6+ hours exam study (6.2 H) | Week ending 9 August 2009 |
| Keep stuff in brain | Update exam question lucky dip | 9 August 2009 |
| Keep stuff in brain | Update exam question recordings | 2 August 2009 |
| Microsoft Certification | 7+ hours exam study (7.2 H) | Week ending 2 August 2009 |
| Keep stuff in brain | Create exam question lucky dip | 2 August 2009 |
Microsoft Certification
ASP.NET
| MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5 ASP .NET Applications |
| Exam 70-536 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation |
| Exam 70-562 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development |
| MCPD: ASP.NET Developer 3.5 on Visual Studio 2008 |
| Exam 70-536 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation |
| Exam 70-562 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development |
| Exam 70-564 | MCPD Requirement: PRO: Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 |
| MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Forms Applications |
| Exam 70-536 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation |
| Exam 70-505 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Forms Application Development |
| MCPD: Windows Developer 3.5 on Visual Studio 2008 |
| Exam 70-536 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework – Application Development Foundation |
| Exam 70-505 | MCTS Prerequisite: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Forms Application Development |
| Exam 70-563 | MCPD Requirement: PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 |
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