A month ago we had a new architect start at work the guy is crazy about the provider model here is a code project implementation

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/ConfigAndProviderModel.aspx

So this has got me thinking about enterprise application patterns I might need to use sometime. Fowlers book "Patterns of enterprise application architecture" seems to be the book to read, every time I look up patterns for enterprise coding, this book is usually mentioned, I guess I will have fast track it into my schedule, that is the same schedule that has to fit in all the MCTS and an MSCP that we are all studing for work so we can become a Microsoft gold partner shop.

Its nuts really how as I learn more the bigger my "todo" and "have to learn about" lists get, it looks like it will be next year before I even get a chance to look at doing a decent case study/ implementation of WPF or WF, I do have a WCF project just around the corner so that will be nice to finally have a play with.

Thinking about it I have close to 5000 pages of text to read half being books i want to read and the other half Microsoft cerifications, I wish someone could invent a matrix like brain data dump so I dont have to queue nightly tech reading for the next 6 to 12 months depending on my disposition and my daughters sleeping habits. arrrrrgghh