About Me

Just a little something about me...

I am yet another out of work software engineer. (Think Office Space.) I have worked for over a decade in Technical Support, QA and QA Management.

I have been out of work since January 2009 and it is now the second week of November. I would have never imagined it would have taken this long to find a job. I have applied for dozens of jobs over the past year and my resumes all seem to disappear into the black hole.

During this downtime, I have decided to try to make myself more marketable by digging deeper into .NET and attempting to create a fully featured Defect Tracker. Yes, I know, there are lots of those out there. I just think that the best way to learn something is to dig in, make mistakes, fumble, and research. Reading books and tutorials will only get you so far. By building a defect tracker, I am going to try to emulate some of the better features from the defect trackers I have used during my experience as a QA Engineer.

With this blog, I will share my findings that will hopefully be helpful to other people who are attempting to program with ASP.NET. ASP.NET is full of quirks, yet there are some features that make life a lot easier. As with all languages and platforms, there are compromises.

Hopefully, you can learn something from my research and ramblings.