Recently Kim Peacoke, our Communications Manager at Readify posted an entry onto her weblog about time being the most valuable commodity in the world and how it compares (among other things) to other kinds of compensation such as money. At the end of the post, as a Readify Consultant I am left blushing.
The reality, at least for me is that my .NET developer community work is to a large degree self serving. I discovered a while ago that the best way to learn something is to teach yourself – provided you have enough lead time.
For example, when preparing for Code Camp Oz I systematically went through the base class library and looked for classes that were new to .NET 2.0. The list was huge, way to big to cover in a 45–minute session so I pared the list down to a dozen or so bullet points.
I then set about understanding the enhancements in more detail, I probably spent most of my time looking at the generic list class, and ended up writing these four posts about the associated generic delegates. Several people have commented on the posts saying they were useful – but you know what, they were more useful to me.