It is said that, "The road to Hell is paved in good intentions;" this is most certainly true, although in my case, I'm only in purgatory, I think. I last posted in December 2010, outlining my intentions for my professional and technical development. I then promptly put all of those intentions on the back burner as my life and my job became increasingly busy with the holidays, several large projects and implementations, and the general stress of life itself.
Nearly four months later, I find myself in this sort-of "purgatory;" a situation in which I have tried to pick up my technical development in C#.NET right where I left off, and found myself having to start all over with my studies. I sat down at my computer this morning with the intention of diving right into automated software testing, wishing to build up my knowledge base in functional automation, content validation, and performance testing in Visual Studio in preparation of my next project. Instead, I've had to go back to the basics, and re-learn the principles of the .NET Framework and coding in C#.NET.
Given this unsettling discovery that my mind does not, in fact, hold onto every little piece of information I take in and preserve it perfectly for future use, I must start over. That said, I am renewing my intentions to master the skill of C#.NET development and learn the art of automated testing. First things first, I must close out this post and start studying to refresh all the information that was lost in the dusty cellar of my brain. More to come on automated testing in my next post.
