Ask a Ninja: Where do you get your Ninja-skills from?

My second “Ask a Ninja” post is about where to get your skills from.

Well, first of all training, experimenting, using a good portion of your spare time for improving your skills. And then, of course, from others. Others that are willing to share their experience and their knowledge. Preferably in a medium that can be persisted (but also one-to-one sessions are invaluable for sharing knowledge).

Because of that I have a quite impressive library full of technical books. In the recent years I moved my library into an electronic form. I have a lot of ebooks and carry most of my library with me all the time on my Kindle. That way I can look up and re-read the important things whenever necessary. You don’t need to know everything, but you need to know where you have that information when it’s required.

So, what’s the point of this blog post you ask?

Well, I just stumbled upon an impressive library in ebook form that is available for free from Microsoft. Its a Huge collection of free Microsoft ebooks for you. They cover Sharepoint, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Web Development, Windows Store development, Azure and Windows.

So, if you want to improve your Ninja-Skills - go and grab them while their hot and start to read. And of course, spent some time to experiment with the knowledge to tighten what you just read. ;-)