looking for first contract

[minestrone]

My first contract was for 180 a day, shamefull really but it got me into banking where I have been ever since so it really was worth it.

[Ifrit]

ifrit:

of the skills list I posted, how many of them are you familiar with?

can you post your CV? If so people can critique.. if you don't want to post it PM it me ill have a look if you like

cheers

I tried to PM you but apparently I dont have the permissions to do so. Tried looking at the FAQs section but I don't seem to have the correct folders. Do you know why this would be?

I have just copied your list below and put by each point what I know and to what level where appropriate

C# / VB - Yes
ASP.NET (limited experience mostly winforms at the moment but learning more of this whilst im not working)
HTML / CSS (may seem obvious but its amazing how many people dont know how to do this properly) Yes
Winforms Yes
Windows services No
Threading / multi-threading - Limited knowledge
SQL Server 2005 (and ideally 2000 and the differences between the two)
Ideally at least 1 other DBMS just so you have a basis for comparison eg oracle, mysql - Yes 2000 and 2005, also Oracle
WebServices - Yes
XML / XSLT / XSD etc - yes - XML, XSLT - no
JavaScript - no
AJAX (probably using MS Framework and JQuery) no
some form of source control (VSS or subversion) yes Sourcesafe
continuous integration (eg cruisecontrol), NANT, MSBuild etc.. some experience of cruise control but just user rather than actually configuring it
unit testing (NUnit, MSTest) No
COM - No
COM Interop (both consuming .NET From COM and vice versa) - No
legacy stuff (ASP, VB6, VB5, some C++, etc) Yes
COM+ / DCOM / MSMQ - No
ORM Frameworks (NHibernate, perhaps the entity framework) - No
Deployment and different ways of deploying software (click-once, MSI etc) - Yes
The GAC and how it works - Yes to some extent

I hope that gives you a better idea of where I am at.

Can someone help me with the PM thing? Do I have to e - mail an admin to get permission?

Thanks

[jim2406]

pm sent, if youre able to read them

[lightng]

I'd say I'd learned far more in years 3 -5 than in 1 to 2.

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I'm in year 7, i'm still constantly suprised by how much there is to learn..

Agree. Seems to go on and on. When I think back of the shoddy way I put apps together in year 2 . They worked, they passed testing but they just weren't as elegant or as flexible as they should be. Thank God I dont have to support them now.