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		<title>This Koolaid tastes good</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly dear reader welcome to my blog. Contained herein will be the rantings and ocassional observations of a born-again coder. My last big exercise in coding was a game called Meltdown that involved hunting around 9 mini-games looking for a few control rods to stop a nuclear reactor from doing its Chernobyl thing. I&#8217;ll claim [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=icanhazdot.net&blog=4697357&post=3&subd=icanhazdotnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firstly dear reader welcome to my blog. Contained herein will be the rantings and ocassional observations of a born-again coder. My last big exercise in coding was a game called Meltdown that involved hunting around 9 mini-games looking for a few control rods to stop a nuclear reactor from doing its Chernobyl thing. I&#8217;ll claim foresight on that one cos I wrote it in 1983 on a Vic 20 &#8211; not just any Vic 20 &#8230; I had the Super-expander so I could spoil myself with 6-1/2 k of RAM. Them&#8217;s were the days.</p>
<p>Nowadays I return to the codeface for entirely different reasons but that&#8217;s another blog topic. Suffice to say that I am requirements- driven and I have a comprehensive list of requirements.</p>
<p>Koolaid ? This is a tongue-in-cheek reference to tendencies of cultism I have observed, ironically mostly in the &#8216;opposition&#8217; to Microsoft (Open-source, Linux &amp; Mac users). We all tend to be a little religious about our choices and I&#8217;ll probably rant on just like everybody else so don&#8217;t bother flaming me, I&#8217;m well-aware of my hypocracy.</p>
<p>I am writing this sitting in last presentation of day 1 of Tech.ed Australia 2008. It&#8217;s my 1st Tech.ed and I like it. Like most things Microsoft it costs not an insubstantial amount to partake and participate but like most things in life you get what you pay for. I remain convinced that the .NET platform is a homogenous and powerful platform that can straighforwardly accomplish anything I care to think of. I haven&#8217;t had any issue (yet) radily finding an aspect of the platform that can service the requirements that I can dream up.</p>
<p>So, if you&#8217;re interested at all in the ramblings of the journey of a re-noob into the world of .NET development, stick around. I plan to ramble on about my journey into .NET and how I managed to approach it. For those who can&#8217;t stand the suspense &#8211; MSDN &amp; the local (human) .NET community, including user groups and events like Tech.ed make it a whole lot less scary. Thems what amde these things are right here in front of me telling me how it works and answering all my dumb questions with a straight face.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s alright, eh?</p>
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