Professional Blog
In this blog I list the technologies that I have worked with or investigated.
Prior to 2012
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Microsoft Visual Basic | For DOS and Windows Version 1 - 6 |
| Microsoft VBScript | |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, C# |
| Microsoft Classic ASP | |
| Microsoft Excel Automation | |
| Microsoft Access | |
| Microsoft SQL Server | |
| Microsoft LINQ | |
| Microsoft IIS Automation | |
| Perl | |
| Oracle RDBMs | |
| BizAgiBPM | Business Process Modeling Tool |
| YouTube Video Production | |
| RTO Web Site | Resources, Technologies and Opportunities |
| Web Services (POX) | See my WinProg.com web site. |
| Web Scraping / Mmashups | |
| Apache Casandra | |
| Mockup Screens | Solution Mockup Tool |
| UML | |
| XP Programming | |
| Scrum / Agile | |
| JavaScript | |
| PHP | |
| MySQL | |
| Cloud Computing: GAE | GAE / Google App Engine, Python, Rackspace platform as a service. |
| Android Mobile Development | Using Eclipse and AppInventor |
| Google FusionTables | |
| Google Docs | Focus on public surveys. |
| Join.me | Online Mentoring / Screen Sharing Tool |
| HTML 5 | Including various modern browser comparisons against HTML5. |
| JavaScript Frameworks Research | Including JQuery, Prototype, DOJO and Django |
| Introduction to Java | |
2012 January
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Swing | |
| NetBeans IDE | |
| LovelyCharts.com | Online Diagraming Tool |
2012 February
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| PDF generation with PHP | |
| Web Site Automation | Windows Server 2008 / IIS7 |
| E-mail Services Automation | MailEnable |
| FTP Services Automation | Argosoft FTP Server |
| DNS Services Automation | SimpleDNS |
2012 March
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| ProjectPier | Cloud based project management tool |
| PHPProjekt | Cloud based project management tool |
| AIDE | Android Integrated Development Environment |
| Hadoop | Big Data |
2012 April
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Google Go | Investigation of this new language. |
| Server Automation Processes | Development of various server automation processes using Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. |
| WMI / WMICodeGenerator | Investigation into WMI functionality and WMICodeGenerator |
2012 May
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Digital Mars D Language |
Investigation into D Language Wonderful cross platform that compiles to native code. Offer multi-threaded concurrency without the complexity of mutexes. |
2012 June
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Windows Tablet utilization | |
| Microsoft SQL Server Performance Debugging |
Utilizing PSSDiag, SQLDiag and various scripting techniques. Performed a webcast to peers at the UMG account mentoring on performance understanding when dealing with SQL Server. |
2012 July
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| VMWare ESX / SAN Automation |
VB Script Automation of VMWare ESX / Storage areas on SAN Environment. Created various VB Scripts to enable the automation of VMWare ESX storage areas on a SAN environment. Scripts were to automate to relocation of Virtual Hard Drives with in the IBM SAN volume controller. |
2012 August
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Java Beans Development |
2012 September
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| Oracle RDBMS 11g | Installation and refamiliarization with PL/SQL Scripting |
| XAMPP for Windows | Installation and refamiliarization with XAMPP for development |
| MySQL | Development of mysql queries for complex reporting, mentoring another developer |
| JavaScript/JQuery/AJAX | Mentoring another developer in web page automation using JavaScript/JQuery and AJAX |
| Node.js | Investigation into Node.js functionality |
| JBoss Drools | Research functionality and use of JBoss Drools |
2012 October
| Skill Acquired | Description |
| NetBeans IDE 7.3 beta | Investigating new feature that allow realtime debugging via the Chrome browser. |
| JBoss AS | Investigation in features and ablities of JBoss Application Server |
| PaintShop Pro x5 | Investigation in updated graphic handling abilities |
| Photoshop CS6 | Investigation in updated graphic handling abilities |
| HTML5, CSS, JQuery | Investigation of new features of CSS3 |