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Recently our local user group has had a bit of a break period – it’s relatively small and we had all burnt out a bit – especially those of us who are constantly presenting.

We returned last month, to basically an intro C# video fest, but it’s got me a little introspective.

I think the best times I have had to learn recently is when I have been cramming to learn something enough to pass on a somewhat educated review at the user group.

I won’t say I’ve learnt anything in depth that I’ve presented – even LINQ I feel like I’m swimming in the shallows of it, but that’s all I have needed day-to-day at work, and in contrast to the guys who don’t get to develop with these tools often, I do feel slightly more advanced.

So what I am thinking of doing, and blogging to at least get it down to motivate me – is to learn a topic a month.  Choose some technology I have been hearing about, and devote enough time that I’d be happy to present some of the basics of it, over the course of a month.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t be learning other things – but I’d try to devote a bit of blog space, actually blog the links and sources I use online and discuss things in more detail.

Anyway, that’s the plan, so I’ll start with the new month!

Any suggestions?