Sunday, October 04, 2009

Random Books : Blend, Silverlight, WPF, WCF, LINQ

Nice vacation, nice learning! Interesting books I've devoured during my recent 2-week vacation.

Silverlight
WCF
ASP.NET MVC
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Random Learnings: RIA, .NET 4, RESTful, IronPython, MEF

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Additional Nifty Tools To Our IronPython Toolbox

This week I've come across two interesting tools that're worth adding to our IronPython toolbox:
  • Methodist : A plugin which enables python scripting inside Reflector. Very useful particularly when trying out how to use objects inside a loaded assembly.
  • SharpDevelop 3 : A fully functional dotNET IDE, now supports Python and also provides Intellisense. This seems more powerful than the IronPython Studio. VIM is still my primary python IDE though, but seems IronPython scripting will now be much quicker when using SharpDevelop.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Top 5 Books To Sharpen .NET Development Skills

.NET technology is evolving quite fast that stuff you learned a year or two ago is fast becoming obsolete. If you're a .NET developer, I recommend the following books to stay sharp these days:

Top 5 Books To Further Business Knowledge for IT Professionals Working in the Financial Industry

Let's face it, to be effective at work and to remain competitive in the job market, IT professionals should be proficient business and technical wise. If you're an IT pro working in the financial industry, I recommend the following easy-to-read books to further business knowledge:

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Journey to becoming a Pythonista

Python charmed me tremendously. It's very elegant, very expressive, very concise, of course these are just few of the very good things about it. I spent a lot of my spare time nowadays (yes I do have a day job) to sharpening my Python skills, with the ultimate goal on to becoming a real Pythonista one day.

It seems a lot of Pythonistas love VIM as the IDE, so I also spent a lot of time mastering it. The VIM links below helped me tremendously.
  • VIM.org. The official site of VIM, the first resource you need to visit. You can download a lot of python related plugins and stuff here.
  • A Byte of VIM by Swaroop. An online book with lots of tutorials and tips.
  • Vim Cookbook. A kind of cheatsheet, loads of helpful tips as well.
Googling Python, you'll get tons of hits. That's definitely an indicator of how popular Python is. The Python links below I find useful.
  • Python.org. The Python official site, the first site you need to visit to get learning resources.
  • A Byte of Python by Swaroop. Very easy to read online book. Lots of tips and tutorials just like Swaroop's VIM book.
  • Python Tutorials. This site definitely lives up to its name, a lot of very useful tutorials.
  • Python Challenge. If you want to get challenged as a Pythonista, then this site is worth a visit.
I'm a dotNET developer by profession, and it's sweet to hear that Microsoft is embracing Python as one of the dynamic languages that could seamlessly run on the dotNET platform, either on the Desktop or the Web. Below are the links I find useful on developing dotNET applications using Python.
There you go folks, a collection of links that helped me a lot so far on to my journey towards becoming a real Pythonista on both the Windows and Linux platforms.

Friday, January 02, 2009

What Techy Stuff I've Learned in 2008

In retrospect, I've certainly learned great deal in '08, although all of them on dotnet platform -
As every tecnologist claims '09 to be the year of the Open Source and Cloud Computing, I'll definitely strive to learn more stuff on Linux, Google App, Dynamic Languages like Python, Azure, etc.

Looking forward for another great learning year in '09!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

.NET Development Link #6 (WPF)

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to .NET Development on WPF.