I did a lot of C++ and Java in school back in 1997-1999, then got a band and quit school.
Fast forward to spring 2006, I was working tech support at a major restaurant chain's HQ and decided i need to make a change. Off of a suggestion from a couple of co-workers (thx Everett and Jim), i decided to pick up C# and re-hone my programming skills (which honestly i had kept up pretty well doing LPC on MudOS. )
My thought was, make good with people at there and get into development. I studied the books hard (Eric gunnerson, Tom Miller, Graham Wihlidal, Karsten Thompsen, Ron Penton, MCTS Training kit for the 536..) Things were looking good but nothing was opening up, so i took a position as second level support when it was offered.
Two weeks later one of the devs quit, and i was fishing pretty hard outside the company for a development job and had a few that i was to interview with soon so i asked to apply for the one at my work (even though i wasn't technically eligible my boss made an exception). I was disappointed to learn that they were only working with COM and VB 6 on Win2k and had no real plans to migrate towards .net development. I still wanted to stay with the company badly and did one of my best interviews ever (or so i feel like).
Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be, as they closed the position due to cutbacks. Luckily, one of my other interviews went really well and the project manager was totally into cutting edge technologies. He was doing ajax, asp.net 2.0, vs2005, sql2005, etc... so i said hell yea and got on board.
That was october, and here i am... Since then he's pushed me really hard to learn Webservices, then WCF, and now WPF (and next is wss 3.0).
As far as finished projects so far, i've written a WCF tcp service endpoint that is a data service for our temp agency (roughly 18 fox pro databases through OLE) I've written numerous SSRS reports tying into that service and a few reports that tie into sql databases directly (ones we don't have services for yet). I wrote a webservice that calls SSIS packages so we don't have to have ssis installed where the software is (saving on SQL licenses) and a few other small things here and there.
The big project right now is automating our temp agency application process. Currently they take paper applications, they get 'filed' until they can be 'entered' into the database. This project is an XML browser application smart client (XBAP)(for ease of deployment to our offices). It will get it's lookup codes and other drop down info from FoxPro via the WCF service and will be writing to a holding tank database (SQL) and we're using SSIS(Sql Server Integration Services) to import people from it to VFP (FoxPRO). (because we aren't planning to have fox pro forever and most likely will do a slow roll out of whatever our next product is... )