The project that I've been working on for the last six weeks or so is finally going to test. The downside is that I need to be there super early on my birthday when it elevates, but I guess since I've not had to do one yet in two and a half years, I'm probably due.
I'd like to think that the little framework I built for the project is pretty clever, and plays to my strengths. Unfortunately most of the work was relative busy work to use the framework, but it's still pretty satisfying to see it get done. Next up is another big project that I'll either partially write or inherit from one of our architects. Not sure which.
One of the things that I don't get to do a lot of is play with new stuff as it's released. I wish there were more opportunities for that, because it's a lot harder to do on my free time. For example, I'd love to dive in and play with the new MVC framework for ASP.NET, which they're actually releasing source for as they go. They released the source for all of ASP.NET a couple of months ago, and it's fascinating to see all of the final bits, with developer comments. Very un-Microsoft of Microsoft.
I've had the opportunity recently to do some mentoring for one of the other developers, specifically around the ASP.NET AJAX framework, which is very gratifying. He's a smart guy anyway, but teaching him the ins and outs and seeing him get it is a lot of fun. Reminds me of why I wrote a book, and there's a part of me that would love to write another one, if I could just find the right niche to do so.
Next up for the personal projects, I'm going to try to build a control that does the auto-complete and name token list for private messages, much the way that Facebook does it. I'm sure that won't be easy, but I think I know how I want to do it.
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