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Certificates, courses, and conferences

Certificates, courses, and conferences

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The following is a list of the Certificates, courses, and conferences that I have obtained or partaken in as part of my continual professional development. Not every course is as good as the next; I have added a brief list of my suggested courses on the Watching and Reading lists.

Conferences

  • Microsoft’s Journey of Agile Transformation – A half day conference on how Microsoft transformed their development, projects, and testing teams into a truly agile workforce.
  • Microsoft’s DevOps Story – A day conference at MS HQ in Reading reviewing how Microsoft do DevOps and how to best use their integration tools.

Certificates

Courses

Nov 2020

Oct 2020

May 2020

April 2020

March 2020

January 2019

August 2019

July 2019

June 2019

May 2019

April 2019

February 2019

January 2019

December 2018

October 2018

August 2018

July 2018

May 2018

April 2018

February 2018

January 2018

December 2017

June 2017

November 2017

October 2017

Earlier

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The Author

The Author

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My name is James and I am a software developer and systems architect from the UK; I specialise in line of business applications for a range of industries (Valuations, Business Services, Legal, Insurance, Healthcare, etc). My core language is c# as a .NET developer; I also work with a range of web development languages and desktop frameworks (such as WPF, winforms, and silverlight etc). I also have substantial experience in the development and management of SQL Server.

Please check out the site’s about page for additional details; most importantly please be aware that anything written on this site (or linked sites) does not necessarily represent the thoughts/etc of any business I currently or have previously worked for.

Patreon

You can find me on Patreon if you wish to support my work! https://www.patreon.com/melodiouscode

Stackoverflow

Like all good developers you can find me over on StackOverflow (and it’s sister sites, even the Beer one!). profile for melodiouscode on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

Certificates, Courses, and the such

A fill list of the online courses, certifications, and conferences I have taken part in can be found here.

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About and Disclaimer

About and Disclaimer

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Melodious Code is the personal blog of a software developer from the United Kingdom (we don’t all live in silicone valley). Posts are likely to be related to software development or technology in general. Posts will be as regular or irregular as they are, no promises are made.

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Developer Professional Development

Developer Professional Development

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I have met many developers who think they know everything (and are happy to tell you that they do); they found a way to write some functions and they have used that pattern ever since (because it is the best). Professional Development is an alien topic to them; why would they spend hours watching videos or reading articles when they have work to do?

As a developer I feel that continual professional development is key; not only to your ability as a coder but also to any projects which you may already be working on. There is always a better way to do something (not that is always a reason for refactoring!).

As part of my continual professional development (CPD) I spend several hours a week watching training videos on new subjects, reading blog articles, and looking at other’s code for inspiration.

This page exists to list some training resources that I have found particularly useful (I am not professionally linked to any of these sites or services, I just found them useful); in addition to these you can also find a list of most of the training videos I have watched here.

Development Practices

Security

ASP.NET MVC

SQL Server

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