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My Tech New Years Resolution

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Don't you love new beginnings?  At the beginning of a year it seems anything is possible.  Perhaps that is why we feel compelled to think about how we can make 2009 a better year than last year.  I see that my last blog entry was Nov 21 which is way too long.  This year I'm going to blog more.  So here they are, my new years tech resolutions.

1. Blog more

Sometimes I don't blog because I just don't think I have something interesting to write about.  Of course, every day there is always some new thing I am learning so really I just need to take a few minutes and write it down.

2. Learn more

In 2008 I became the evangelist for WCF and WF.  This year these technologies will move into .NET 4.0 and there is a lot to learn about them.  But also I need to learn about so many other technologies

2a. Learn WPF

The new Workflow Designer is written with WPF and must be extended with WPF.  I am just getting started with WPF but I'm committed to all future demos using WPF - no more WinForms for me.

2b. Learn Silverlight

RIA applications are becoming much more important.  If I am speaking about REST at a conference I want to show REST in the context of a RIA application.  No more just plain aspx WebForms - something much better

2c. Learn ADO.NET Entity Framework

I absolutely love LINQ to SQL and I want to understand how ADO.NET Entity Framework behaves.  After all I want to write apps the way that my customers write apps.  I expect that Entity Framework will become the data access technology of choice in the future.

3. Share more

I want to share more with you.  More code, more hands on labs, more videos, more conference presentations.  I want to make these resources as useful as I possibly can so that when you are trying to get your work done you get a helping hand.  How often when I'm stuck trying to learn something new I've wondered if someone hasn't blogged about this before or if there is some sample app that can help me. In that moment I don't want to spend an hour looking for an answer, I want something quick.  Hopefully I can help you by sharing the work that I'm doing here and on ronjacobs.com

4. Listen more

Maybe this should be #1 - however order does not indicate priority.  I want to hear from you. 

  • Do you feel we are on the right track?  The wrong track with WCF and WF in .NET 4?
  • Are you building RESTful applications with .NET?  How are you building them?
  • What can I do to help you?

After all - you are the reason I am here working day in and day out.  Together we are changing the world one solution at a time. 

 

Well... that's my list.  What's on yours?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2009
    This might be dumb, and my lack of knowledge of WCF isn't extensive..but.... We use WCF internal for a lot of things and I love it.  That said, it was time to expose some new API calls for our clients (SOAP) and I wanted to use WCF, but that lack of some kind of "WsdlHelpGenerator.aspx" forced me to create another Asp.net Web Service application. With two days of tweaking that file I've been able to generate some basic documentation that can be viewed here: http://dev.emaildirect.com/v1/ and http://dev.emaildirect.com/v1/api.asmx?op=Email_GetHistory Now more and more people are asking about REST and I've seen a lot of posts and examples using WCF, but (due to laziness) I don't want to create a bunch of documentation files by hand...is there some kind of codeplex project or feature that I don't know about?  How can I make/tweak some kind of file or solution to generate some basic documentation. That is something I would like to see, then I think I could expose some RESTful options for our clients....or maybe I just shouldn't be so lazy....

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2009
    I meant "My knowledge of WCF isn't extensive".....maybe my new years resolution should be to take an english class.

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2009
    Nice work on the help generator.  The WCF REST Starter Kit has a very basic help generator but nothing as detailed as what you have done.  Great idea!

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2009
    You know I haven't played with the REST Starter Kit because I would still need to create the SOAP calls, and I would want to do everything in WCF.  Is there any kind of generic help generator for WCF, like there is for ASP.NET Web Service Applications?

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2009
    Yes there is a generic help page for WCF Services but it doesn't allow to test the service the way that an ASMX page does.

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2009
    Mine - in RO, but I think that is easy to understand... http://serviciipeweb.ro/iafblog/2009/01/04/New+Year+Resolution.aspx