100th post. I want to thanks everyone who came visiting me regularly. Over the last year, the amount of visits grew each weeks. I remember when I got the 100 visits mark. Now I am at an average of 120 visits per day with a day of 199 visits. As you can see below, it’s pretty clear where the weekend is.

Here is a gift for you all !!! (I think he had a lot of spare time …) Enjoy!

You may not know, but I am a full time web worker since February 2007 and I am loving it. I followed my girlfriend to his new job in mechanical engineering located in the “Beauce” area in the province of Québec (1 hour from Québec City). But let’s make a point clear. It was not as easy as it sounds. It takes a lot of discipline and you may find that you just can’t do it. I have had many friends who were not able to work from home. For me, it was easy since it’s a childhood dream. I have gone through 3 phases.

The first one is the “That’s easy” phase. During the first 2 months, everything seemed so easy. I was very productive and enjoyed every minutes working from home. This is also the phase were you work more than you are supposed and keep no free time. You have the impression you can achieve anything.

I called the second phase : “I need to check everything around the house to be sure nothing changed.”. In this phase, everything disturbed me. I started to feel lonely and was wondering if I made the right choice. During this 6 months phase I had a hard time concentrating on my job. It’s also the time we were building our new home. During that time, I never took a day off except the day we moved in. I was exhausted, stressed and lost. We had problems with contractors. The price we anticipated was a bit higher due to the angle of the lot we bought. To make things worst, I started working on a new project requiring me to work with Microsoft Dynamics (until you used the supplied API you can’t imagine how frustrating of an experience it is). But I have gone through it.

Now, I am in the third phase. I called it the “Rebirth phase”. I restarted my old habit of learning as much as I can. I have solved my concentration problem. I feel a lot more happier and a lot more in health. I started to really enjoy working remotely and I am sure I am as productive as I was before. I am now fully happy with it. And I have new projects for my region…

I am now available to work on small contracts for now. I also want to work remotely. If you are interested, just let me know via the contact form.

HIRE ME !

I have been pretty busy lately. I have so much fun working on my project, that I have neglected my blog a little. As part of my “Building a New Application Series“, I will introduce another series under it, the “What Have I Learn SO Far”. As you may know, I started this project as a challenge (The “What I can do in the next 6 months to become a better developer ) to learn more. This series will consist of various knowledge I acquired during the course of the project. I have already learn a lot and I have multiple items on my list to blog about. Various stuff about application architecture, xUnit, NHibernate, Domain Modeling, etc. I’ll try to deliver great content. 

I want to thank everybody who has been visiting my blog. I have now reach 6000 hits with an average of 60 hits per day. I will keep raising my bar to deliver you some great content over the next few months. Thank you very much!!!

P.S. I’ll keep working on my writing skills, don’t worry!

I have just received this! The inscription is :

Thank you for the lasting contribution you made to Microsoft Visual Studio. S. Somasegar

I really like receiving gifts, but I would have preferred a free copy of Visual Studio 2008. . Anyway, It’s a nice thank you.

Watch and cry (of course I’m not crying for real).

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319854/bctid1199157902

I will soon move to my new house and I got a 13×13 room for my office. There is no windows, but I have a really big patio door. I will almost never receive any client and I want it to be a productive and fun place. Do you have any advice for me?

A lot happen in the past weeks. First of all, this blog has reached 1000 visits. I’m extremely proud of that and I will try to maintain this constant growth. Next, my house is almost done, finally. This is a Profab house which is in the NovoClimat category. I expect to move in in 2 or 3 weeks.

Some months ago (when I was blogging on WDevs) I was using Windows Live Writer a lot. The only problem I had, was to configure it to actually see my blog. And today I have decided to give it a second try. And, wow, no problem at all. Everything is working perfectly. There is also some interesting plug-in that will enhance my experience (ex : Syntax Highlighting and Flicker4Writer).

This, has made my day.

Windows Live Writer