I'm in! Let the building begin!

It's time to get started. There are things to build, code to write, and bugs to fix.

The transition will be bitter sweet. I'll be leaving many wonderful and inspiring people at my current job. It's time to move forward though.

There are several projects I've been working that are the start of a portfolio. I'll provide updates as I formalize it and I have more completed to show.

Portfolio

The first project is a reminder program for professional licenses.

The program downloads a CSV file from the web and checks it against an internal database. If changes have been made the internal database is updated and an email is sent congratulating them on renewing. If they need to renew but haven't it sends several reminder emails. I think 30, 10, 5 and 2 days are appropriate. Also an expiration notice email will go out.

Learning the tools

I need to transition over to the tools I'll be working with at camp. I've installed Visual Studio but I need to get comfortable with C# and moving around in my dev environment before camp. Let the refactoring begin!

I have a functioning (early) alpha written in Ruby. My internal 'database' is another CSV at this point. I'll eventually transition that over to SQL. Since I'll be working in C# I'm going to refactor the code as is into C#.

T-minus 37 days!