It's been about a month since I last posted. I have a good excuse although I could have taken 5 minutes over the last month to at least say hi. In any case over the last month I've been busy with two big projects.
The first is the relaunch of JumpStartTV.com. It's was a site developed by Brian Knight with the intentions of a different kind of video site. Along the way it was forgotten. Andy decided to revive the project and I was the one tasked with the revival. I haven't done too much work to it yet as we just wanted to get it up and running with a few minor changes. I added a tag cloud and added some admin tools for automatically processing videos but that's about it. Look for some very nice updates over the next few weeks with a major push of content. We're currently planning 1 new video per day 4 days a week for the SQL channel. The .NET channel will start adding content in October. We have a lot of different authors contributing content which should make for a very cool technical video site. By the way, all of the content is free.
The second project is the one with which I can add trainer to my resume. I successfully put together a Beginning ASP.NET course and delivered it to 7 students last week. It went well in most places but needs a little work to get it totally right. I would say that the students were pretty happy with the content and enjoyed their time training with me. I even had one student buy a $50 gift card as a thank you.
Andy and I are going to be developing two more courses that will be available next year. Advanced ASP.NET and .NET for DBA's. There will be more information on those courses to come.
I'm really excited about the work that I'm doing and this next year should be a really good for me both professionally and personally.
My next blog should be the one I promised a few months ago about mapping a data table to list objects.
Until next time.
posted @ Saturday, July 26, 2008 8:55 PM