Well, true to my normal Monday I woke up at around 5:00 am. The problem with that is that out on the Pacific coast that means 2:00 am. Well, I did get a somewhat more of a lie in than that, but I’m still up and ready well before I need to be.
Today is the first day of the Patterns and Practices Summit West 2006. This morning’s keynote is by Brad Abrams on “Principles of Framework Design”.
Tomorrow I leave for the Patterns & Practices Summit out in Redmond. I’m looking forward to it! There seems to be a lot of good speakers and plenty of good content. I’ll try to provide summaries of the sessions like I did when I went to PDC.
Jim Holmes has a great post about the journey he took from a place he wasn’t happy with to where he is now. I can’t agree with this more. I am sometimes taken aback at the negative reception to new technologies and methodologies by other developers. If you want to get ahead in this industry you have to be keeping up. You have to keep learning. If you haven’t been at least reading the “intro to” articles for the .