A Bit Rusty, But It Could Be Worse
I’m just wrapping up with work for the day. I am just into my second week on the job and I am already knee-deep in a project.
My last position had me working in .NET 1.1 (though I did some .NET 2.0/Visual Studio SDK Stuff towards the end). I worked on a product that had been written years before and there was very little need to think about what I was doing. It seems I experienced a bit of brain rot in my 6 months there and I’m feeling it now.
Today I am working with C# 3.0, LINQ to SQL, SQL Server 2005(sometimes) and Visual Studio 2008. My coding skills have gotten a bit rusty… ok, very rusty! It’s coming back to me and after re-writing the same 5 lines of code about 20 times today (I may be exagerating a little), I started seeing code that I was happy with. I’ll get back to normal soon enough and the rusty-ness will be a distant memory.
While having a tough time getting back into the swing of things kind of sucks, It could be worse. I was reading Rob Conery’s latest post, and it reminded me of stuff I wrote 5 years ago. Scary stuff! It wasn’t all bad, but I’m sure if I had the opportunity to comment on that code now, it wouldn’t all be nice.
At least I can feel a little better knowing that the code I wasn’t happy with today was better than stuff I wrote years ago.
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