RE: Skilling Up

2011-01-12 Thread David Pung
] Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:13 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Skilling Up There's a Silverlight user group in Melbourne (and Sydney, Perth). http://sddn.org.au/ should get you some details on where they meet. There's also a couple of .Net ones but being a Perth guy I don't know anything

RE: Skilling Up

2011-01-12 Thread Simon Kuldin
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Pung Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2011 10:01 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: Skilling Up I like WPF and silver light. I think they are the future. But HTML5 might introduce something else. to my knowledge, there are not many jobs for them at the moment - maybe

Re: Skilling Up

2011-01-12 Thread silky
Any particular user groups that you would recommend? Come to MXUG next week: https://groups.google.com/group/mxug?hl=enpli=1 There is also datamelb tonight: http://groups.google.com/group/datamelb As for getting started; it's obvious, but just find something you want to do, and try and do it.

RE: Skilling Up

2011-01-12 Thread David Pung
@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: Skilling Up Any particular user groups that you would recommend? Come to MXUG next week: https://groups.google.com/group/mxug?hl=enpli=1 There is also datamelb tonight: http://groups.google.com/group/datamelb As for getting started; it's obvious, but just find something

Re: Skilling Up

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Minutillo
Hi Simon, Firstly, it's probably worth talking to your current employer to see if this is something they can help you with. Sometimes this kind of sideways change can be beneficial for both parties (especially if it means that the business can hold on to a valuable resource). Personally I don't

Re: Skilling Up

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Price
I agree with Mike on the point of talking to your current employer. I did this 6 years ago when I was in infrastructure, and I scored myself a whole month seconded to the dev team. They were busy in a testing phase so I basically sat there for a month teaching myself VB.Net (one of those learn

RE: Skilling Up

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Kuldin
...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:01 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Skilling Up I agree with Mike on the point of talking to your current employer. I did this 6 years ago when I was in infrastructure, and I scored myself a whole month seconded to the dev team

RE: Skilling Up

2011-01-11 Thread Leah Garrett
+.net Attending presentations / meetings at your local .Net community group can be good. http://ozalt.net/ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Simon Kuldin Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:05 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Skilling Up Any

RE: Skilling Up

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Kuldin
. Methodical. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Leah Garrett Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2011 4:15 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Skilling Up For on-line QA / community check out: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/search?q=starting