Experience Required

I have done my fair share of interviewing, as a former Partner and Chief Archetect of a small consulting firm, part of my role was to interview potential new hires.  A common theme arose out of this process, many of the canidates had ASP.Net experience but little or no WinForm experience, also many of them have had little or no experience in building applications for the trading floor, both of which are essential experiences for Investment Banking and Hedge Funds.

Sounds like there is an oppurtunity for someone to develop a training course geared to providing the attendee’s with the appropriate experience in building apps for the trading floor and beyond.

I am currently working with an experienced .Net trainer at the moment developing course material for such training so will keep you all posted as we get closer to publishing the course material.

 A collegue of mine has an interesting entry that disects A Job Posting, check out the comments.

Legacy IT (you gota love it)

Will SOA be the answer to this problem, I think not, there is no silver bullet when it comes to integration of systems within an organization, let alone across organizations. 

WPF/E and the Web

This is pretty cool stuff from Microsoft WPF/E, the examples are courtesy of Channel9.  The downside is that it is yet another plug-in that needs to be installed in the browser, so yet another possible security hole, yada yada.

My Picture

Well I have just loaded my picture up so that each time I make a post or comment, you will see my smiling face.  I hope it does not deter you from reading (LOL)

Web Services and WCF

This article from Microsoft’s patterns and practices is well worth reading if you are looking to build Web Services using WCF

Snap

Snap, my blog has been enabled with snap, a free utility that provides popup views when a user hovers over a web link, I like, and the fact that I had to do nothing was great.  Hurray for wordpress.

Microsoft v Apple

So what will microsoft do in responce to apple’s iPhone ?  Check out this story out.  I will not be running to buy the iPhone any time soon.

Blog Tagged !!!!

So Mark I will join in the fun

 So five things about me that no one ( in america ) knows, hmm, lets see

1. I have a single tatoo on my arm of garfield ( the cat ), had this done whilst at collegue at 9am in the morning, hurt like hell.
2. Whilst in my first real job, I was a member of a local theatrical group, and sang in a number of musicals, Camelot, Les Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar, to name but a few.
3. One leg is shorter than the other
4. When i was a hundred pounds lighter, I was a long distance runner representing my high school, my best placement was 25th out of a field of 200.
5. I can use a potters wheel, and my parents house is full of my pottery endevours

I will not forward this on to 5 others, as its way too chain leter for my liking.  Does this mean now that I will be striken with some fatal accident, etc. (LOL)

Happy New Year

To all blog readers I wish you a happy and prosperous new year.

I have been quiet recently on my blog, due to the fact that I have been busy with a number of new projects, I have accumulated some interesting material which I will be blogging about over the next couple of weeks.

Nyse to shutter trading floor

NYSE looks to close one of its trading floors Finextra reports, programme trading is identified as the cause.