Yesterday I ranted a little about how some just wait until a feature shows up in a Microsoft product before they'll even look at it...and how I use to be that guy. My jumping off point was when I finally took the time to investigate Test Driven Development (TDD). He may not remember it, but Scott Dockendorf was working with me at Healthvision and he gave us a demo on TDD. Like everyone else, I blew over it pretty fast because I knew we weren't going to change our corporate dev style. Soon after he jumped ship for Telligent and never looked back. :-)

When TDD started to click for me I finally woke up and realized that if I was going to be good at my profession then I couldn't wait on my employer (or Microsoft for that matter). This profession moves too fast and for everything I think I know there are 1000 things that I don't know. I'm not an extremist either, meaning that if it has MS attached to the name or process I don't automatically discount it like some. I will, however, take the time to look at ways to increase my productivity and ability to perform my job. It is such a blessing that a company pays me money to write code for a living and that's the least I can do for them.

Giddy Up!