Finally stopped daughter whinging. Thank goodness for Igglepiggle!

Remedial math self-help postponed – been sent shopping! Meh

Sunday morning – learning trigonometry, vectors and matrices. Shoulda paid more attention to Maurice Telford (school maths teacher) !

Chilli con carne for breakfast. Win!

I’ve had my head melted by repeated use of List in my code. 3D maths has that effect….

Hahaha – added rigid body physics to my car model but forgot to provide a “floor” for it to sit on. Watched as gravity took hold perfectly

Irony – advert for a ASP.Net VB job giving :-

Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a0005′

Invalid procedure call or argument: ‘Left’

/cart/results.asp, line 228

Tonights tipple – Amaro Montenegro, named in honour of Princess Elena of Montenegro. Nice touch

Yoga, chanting and magic crystals? This Waybuloo is a bit New Age innit?

While you were sleeping….

….the world changed.

As a developer, you’re perhaps more familiar than most at the pace of change with technology, but sometimes it can still be surprising how quickly you can get left behind.

Having started the .Net chapter of my development career around the time of .Net 1.0, I’ve seen it continue to evolve to its current version of soon-to-be-4.0 and in this time I’ve moved back and forth between WinForms and Web (ASP.Net) development. I’ve worked on n-Tier platforms and CMS integrations.

However, my current search for my next role/contract has highlighted the changing tide in the market. Everybody seems to be after Test Driven Development, nUnit, Agile, Scrum, Rhino Mocks and ASP.Net MVC – things that represent not just a change in technologies, but a change in the way that we approach development overall.

My view is that if you’re not working in a development team that is already using these approaches, you’re gonna have a hard time of “breaking in” – and this applies doubly to freelancers/contractors. Some of them can be tackled for your own personal projects too. Perhaps not Scrum (who you gonna scrum with?) but certainly some Agile methods can be adopted (see my question and its responses at StackOverflow

Bottom line? You snooze, you lose. Keep up to date people, your career depends on it!