10 Steps To Become Better .NET Developer

10 Steps To Become Better .NET Developer


Friday, November 19, 2010 at 15:20
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Azure,


CC.NET,


CQRS,


Castle,


Cloud Computing,


CouchDB,


DDD,


IoC,


Linux,


Mono,


NHibernate,


NServiceBus,


ORM,


autofac,


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Here's a list of things you might want to learn about in order to become a better .NET developer. Better developers are eligible to
higher paychecks, exciting projects and
more freedom in their lifestyles.

Learn Unit Testing
Get familiar with distributed
Version Control Systems:
Git or
Mercurial.
Learn about
IoC Containers:
Autofac,
Windsor Container and
StructureMap.
Contribute to Open Source Projects of your choice.
Learn about Continuous Integration and try setting up

TeamCity,
Hudson or
CruiseControl.NET.
Learn about
NHibernate Object Relational Mapper, but be prepared to outgrow it for NoSQL persistence like

CouchDB,
MongoDB or
RavenDB.
Check out the buzz about
cloud computing, try
Windows Azure Platform and also give a shot to running your .NET App with
Mono on Linux (some free offers to try).
Familiarize yourself with messaging architectures and try
NServiceBus,
MassTransit or
RhinoQueues; then learn about alternative to MSMQ -
AMQP and
RabbitMQ.
Read
Domain-Driven Design and apply it in your projects.
Get Started with CQRS Architectures and practice it in a learning project.

As you can see, the list is not endless. There are just ten distinct topics structured in the recommended order of learning and practicing. Diligently walking through them is certain to get you way above the level of Senior Developer, opening a whole set
of opportunities all around the world.

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