High Speed Development refresher

Question

Hi All,

I am curious about how some of you refresh your coding skills.

For various reason, my dev skills have been idle for the last few months and was wondering what suggestions there where to dust the rust off.

I used to be a dotnet developer (C#).

I am currently working through the code Kata from codekata.pragprog.com.

I am also running through my tried and tested copy of the pragmatic programmer.

For podcasts I am catching up on DotNetRocks and Hansel Minutes (not to far behind on these)

I am also looking at www.microsoftelearning.com

What would be handy is quick refernce guides/ jump starts for items such as c#, asp.net, WCF, WPF, MS SQL etc.

Are there any other ideas or suggestions?

Regards

Ian

Answer 1

I would recommend http://www.topcoder.com/ -- its a lot of fun and is a great way to stay on top of your game. check it out!

Answer 2

GNovice, thanks.

this post had what i was looking for.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6327/what-are-your-programming-exercises