I know, I know… I haven’t posted anything yet except for my lame excuse about loosing my last blog due to me being an artard and not backing up my site. BUT, I’ve been kind of busy lately with work and holding on to a job since this whole economic down turn is making it very difficult with finding the next consulting gig. I have witnessed the heart ache of a lot of good friends as they are impacted with loosing their jobs because of cut backs within the walls of the big companies and the small. I have even heard of companies offering employees to move into a more junior position with pay cuts (you know like moving from an Architect role to help desk) in order to stay employed. So with that in mind I want to try something a little different on this go around with my technical blog. I want to provide some “no nonsense” tutorials and posts about getting started doing what I am doing as well as pointers on how to look for work and be able to sell yourself above your competitors.
With that in mind let me break down how I want to categorize the posts. There will be of course specific technical articles about different technologies. I will do my best to organize these going from Basic to Advanced. I will also share with you how I have done what I have done and how I compete with other contractors that are flooding the IT market place. Some posts will just be pointers and/or definitions of words to reflect on. Other posts will be multipart tutorials that may stretch across a couple of weeks. This blog is intended as my professional blog and will be as factual as possible. If something is of opinion I will ensure that it is marked accordingly.
In all I am offering all this for free. IT is my community and I want to be there to support you all as we go through rough times with the job market. I want to help out in any way I can. So if you are looking for help in a particular area let me know. I will do my best to answer you questions and/or at least point you in the right direction to work through your problem.
Most of all thanks for visiting my little piece of the internet world.
