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Showing posts with label Careers. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Contextual.NET : New Training Program For The Experienced

“Understanding a technology is only a starting point. Applying it in the right context is what matters”

This has been our core belief and guiding principle and also one of the distinct values we provide in our Training programs. Most other training programs excel at teaching ‘what is’ and ‘how to use’ technology.   Our Programs go beyond and put participants directly in the context of real world application scenarios and help them choose a strategy, concept or a technique out of all available options and given a set of unique constraints of a project. We teach key techniques and considerations that will help to evaluate an approach, not just from technical point of view, but also from the business value point of view.  So the focus has always been not just to learn but to apply.

However, most of this content like case studies, brainstorming sessions, evaluation techniques and guidelines is  currently deeply integrated with the rest of the curriculum in a course.  Every participant must attend the full program to leverage this knowledge, even though they may be well conversant with the ‘what’ and ‘how to use’ of the technology already. 

Over the last couple of months, we have been extracting these case studies, brainstorming sessions, evaluation techniques and guidelines in order to create a course on its own, to address this need for Experienced developers. Today we are happy to announce the name of this  new program, ‘Contextual .NET’, a program for the experienced .NET Developers.  The course will go live in the first week of October.  I will publish more details of the program: detailed content, duration, location and fee in the next couple of days.

Get ready to get contextual.  Apply technology you already know in a way that really matters, to the business.

Not just technology, but what matters.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Cowboys To Craftsmen with ASP.NET MVC ??

Quite an interesting way to put the Journey of ASP.NET (developers) from ASP.NET Page based design to MVC based applications. Hope I am not taking it out of context. Its not explicit, but it is written all over the wall. Nevertheless, towers of abstraction and magic by Visual Studio often make developers ignore the inner workings of the framework. Its not a surprise to find an ASP.NET developer that hardly knows anything about HTML beyond the acronym and yet can still develop great ASP.NET pages that really work.

Undoubtedly ASP.NET MVC is better than ASP.NET Web forms, particularly in terms of testability and separation of concerns. But I do not think the model (be it MVC or Web forms) itself could create a better developer somehow.

There are two ways to be a developer. You can be a cowboy or you can be a craftsman. A cowboy jumps right in and starts coding. A cowboy can build a software application quickly. The problem with being a cowboy is that software must be maintained over time.

A craftsman is patient. A craftsman builds software carefully by hand. A craftsman is careful to build unit tests that cover all the code in an application. It takes longer for a craftsman to create an application. However, after the application is created, it is easier to fix bugs in the application and add new features to the application.

Most software developers start their programming careers as cowboys. At some point, however, you must hang up your saddle and start building software that will stand the test of time.

Source : Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC

You can see the focus and so much stress on ‘hand crafting’.  I guess even ASP.NET is going through a journey of its own. by moving away from it’s Page based model and embracing MVC that the rest of the world has been using for years.

Friday, May 7, 2010

What is the Biggest Challenge For Programmers?

This video was recorded about 6 years back in 2004 on MSDN Channel 9, where Eric Gunnerson was talking about challenges for Programmers then, around 2004. One of the biggest challenge used to be about keeping up with the pace of technology around you. Not surprisingly, we feel, nothing has changed since then. It is still one of the biggest challenges programmer face.

Ask any .NET developer what do they think about .NET 4.0 and a whole range of other new stuff released this year alone, you can feel the overwhelming anxiety. They are more confused and we should say more scared at the pace of .NET platform evolution, than before. Not surprising at all.

Link to the Video here. Don’t forget read comments on that page.

There are a couple of important aspects  in those comments. Here are some excerpts from the comments:

  • It is a good philosophical observation about the way people work when they're abstracted away from semantics, and I think we're seeing now what was originally intended; save your time to worry about the bigger issues.
  • The rate of change is indeed a problem. And it is constantly accelerating.

  • Will development become something you get into after getting your college degree and after 10 years you will have to "retire" to another profession? Or maybe the cost and effort of acquiring the necessary skills will be so high in comparison to the time you have to leverage it, that it won't even be economical - and it will all be outsourced?

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Unleash Your Career 2010, Now At Supercool School on 10th April 2010

Have you ever got curious what is Microsoft .NET is all about? Are you looking to jump start your career in IT? Or Are you already in IT and looking for a break to advance your Career? Or just want to know what is HOT in the Job market today?

Come, Join us at INSPIONS University, now a Supercool School to Unleash Your Career, by exploring various opportunities in the Market place and to carve out a blue print to achieve your dreams.

"Unleash Your Career" is our Annual premier event where Dreams come true for IT Professionals. In this .NET Edition Explore and Discover various Career Opportunities around Microsoft .NET Technologies. Learn about Technologies, Job Markets and what skills Businesses are looking for. And leave with a blue print on how to achieve your Career aspirations with Microsoft .NET Technologies.

Ask YOUR own questions. Also get answers to questions like

  • How is job Market today? Where? What? and How?
  • I am just a student. What is the best way to approach the Job Market?
  • I already work on xxxx. Why should I switch to .NET?
  • I already work on xxxx. How can I switch to .NET technologies?
  • .NET 1.1/2.0/3.5 and now 4.0? How can I keep up?
  • Should I learn C# or VB?
  • ASP.NET, WPF or Silverlight? What pays more?
  • NUnit or xUnit? What is HOT in the market?
  • Is AJAX still relevant in the market?
  • I heard a lot about Sharepoint. What it takes to master it?
  • What is the best paid Technology today?
  • I want to become an Architect? How do I go about it?
  • SQL or Oracle? What gets a better job?

and a whole lot more.

Join Us Online On Saturday, 10th April, 2010 at 11AM. Its FREE.

Reserve Your Seat Now

By registering at INSPIONS University you can access all upcoming seminars, tutorials and .NET sessions LIVE as well as on demand.

See you there.

INSPIONS University is now a Supercool School !!!

We are constantly looking to enrich our learning platform and have found Supercool School to be, well, really super cool. So, we have immediately switched and now offering “Unleash Your Career” as our first session. We are super excited about the new opportunities this platform will bring to us and to you. We are quite confident that you will like it too. Will share more about this platform and reasons why we switched to it so fast, little later. If you haven’t checked it out, join us now.

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Have you ever got curious what is Microsoft .NET is all about? Are you looking to jump start your career in IT? Or Are you already in IT and looking for a break to advance your Career? Or just want to know what is HOT in the Job market today?

Then you must join our “Unleash Your Career” session, on 10th April 2010 at 11AM (US/Central). Sign up at INSPIONS University and join the session right away. Learn more about “Unleash Your Career” here.

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See you there.