I haven't posted in over a week about my progress with my 30 day sprint to learn Silveright because it died. Right after the last post I ran into several roadblocks, the largest of which was the loss of enough free time to regularly spend the time needed. Also, after a couple of days of inactivity I lost my motivation.

This morning I realized that today is the 30 day mark. So did my expirement fail? In the sense that I didn't spend the hour per day that I pledge to myself, yes it did. But, in the sense that I learned a lot about Silverlight and got myself into more of a habit of setting aside time to learn, it was a success.

The next time I decide to do a sprint of this kind, I will check with my event planner (my wife) and make sure that the schedule will allow for the time I want to spend. Also, I think I'll go for a shorter time span. I think my next sprint will probably be either 2 weeks or 15 days, and I might try to lay out a goal for each day ahead of time.

Right now I'm involved in a project in my free time to build a Silverlight application that has a pretty aggressive timeline, but I'll try to post examples of things I've figured out or problems I ran into along the way. I also have several ideas of some fun apps to write that I'll blog about as well.

Labels: silverlight, sprint