Boy, am I the worst blogger of all time. Look at that last post date.... But I guess that's just an occupational hazard for Your Working Boy. Too much coding, not enough blogging.

Still, with the New Year I've been taking stock of my priorities and I've determined that I really should make a legitimate go of keeping up with my blog. So I'm making that one of my very few resolutions this year. And here we are, which brings me to my next resolution...

I need to strongly re-focus my energy towards "outside learning". Up until last year, I had always made a concerted effort at keeping up with industry trends, both techological and business-oriented. I devoured several trade rags a month, worked through two or more software development books at a time, attended seminars and user group meetings. But I've been sucked in by that most dangerous of forces: career inertia.

I've grown dependent on my job to deliver learning opportunities. The problem is, it isn't. And actually, the problem is manifold, because of the intensely slow adoption curve here, and because of the poor implenmentation of whatever new technology does actually get picked up.

My primary target, and the critical gap in my experience right now, is ASP.NET. While I am extremely comfortable with the C# language and the VS.NET dev environment and its related build/deployment issues, I am still almost a complete newbie when it comes to ASP.NET.

So, with the Internet as my witness, I hereby pledge to get off my expanding seat and dive back into the fray, keeping up with my trench-level views of the industry in general, and making more commentary on some technology specifics.

You'll hold me to that pledge, right?