Welcome to (yet another) technology blog.
In here, I'll mostly be talking about my (mis) adventures in the land of technologies such as BizTalk, ASP.NET and SharePoint 2003. If the mood strikes me, I might even get a bit philosophical now and then, feel free to skip those parts.
What am I doing right now? I'm a Technical Analyst/Projectleader at Dolmen, a belgian software company. For the last few years, I've primarily focused on such areas as ASP.Net, Design Patterns, UML and BizTalk 2002 and 2004. Recently, Sharepoint 2003 has entered that list, and thats what I'm currently using the most.
I consider myself a generalist, meaning that I don't blindly focus on one technology, which - in my opinion - is not really possible anymore, since (for example) to know SharePoint you need at least a solid base of ASP.NET and Web UserControls knowledge (try making a Web Part without it...). Of course, its completely impossible to know everything about all products from the Microsoft family, so a little bit of specialization automatically occurs.
In the end, being a software guy is not about how good you are in certain technologies, what is important is your ability to adapt to new environments and products. With the current rate of new products/platforms/frameworks/whatever, by the time you 'dig' something completely, the RC1 of the next version usually rolls around the horizon anyway ;) So adaptability and flexibility are key. All of this is of course IMHO, allthough you can probably drop the 'H' :D
Anyhow, that was rambling number 1.
Sam
