- Posted by azazeal on June 3, 2009
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What I’ve been working on for the last four months
The last four months I’ve been the main developer / architect of a medical project called Maternal PRO, a documentation system for Gynecology and obstetrics which was presented at the 11th Gynecology Conference at the Hilton hotel in Athens, Greece from 28/5/2009 to 31/5/2009.
Maternal was built on .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, it’s database agnostic(single user version uses a Sql Server 2005/2008 Express database with a Linq2Sql database layer) and has a 100% WPF UI.
How did I end up developing Maternal
Right after the start of 2009 (and a very successful past year) I was trying to establish my place somewhat more as a freelancer in the Greek IT market so I ended up writing a tech CV and sending it to the HR departments of some companies. One of those companies was NOON. After the initial interview I immediately started working for them on the project.
NOON is really a cool place to work. Developers do have the flexibility to choose the tools they need in order to perform specific tasks and we also have the flexibility to try out cool new technologies (like WPF and Silverlight) and integrate them into our projects.
We are not a Microsoft oriented company. My department might be but there are people here working with Java (mobile applications like Gynofone – which is like a Maternal lite version for Java based phones), others that work with Flash. We even have COBOL & PHP developers.
What the future looks like
Maternal was my first project while working for NOON. It’s left a bittersweet taste because of the pressed deadline but I’m happy to have worked on it: I’m happy to have architected it and I’m proud to say that I did.
In the near future I might start developing a WPF Reporting engine. An end-user reporting toolkit that can be bundled with any .Net application that will be dependent on the business layer of the application and not the data repository.
I’m eager to start working on this project, I’ve been thinking of ways to develop it for the last 2-3 years and I might even start working on .Net 4.0 on that project.
So, that’s what’s been going on lately, that’s why the blog is not getting updated as much as I’d like and that’s what’s going to happen (hopefully) in the near future.
Write to you later,