Mentoring

Hey all,

I've been coding (hacking might be a little more appropriate) for a number of years now and would very much like to improve my skill level. I seem to have plateaued as I have no idea where to go from here.

From what I've read getting into a group project is a good idea. Does anyone know of any good open source projects in c#; or have any other suggestions for trying to improve?

Just pick anything on SourceForge that takes your fancy, but be warned, only work on projects with recent activity.

I've contributed to a few projects on SF, but my patches have rarely been integrated because the project leader abandoned it ages ago (but never removed their status from the project pages)

So the authors on source forge actually review your code then implement it into their programs? Do they give any kind of feedback? (I don't like your code because...)

Visit my blog undev.spaces.live.com. On my Tools I Use pane I have number of open source projects that you can learn from. Also Scott Hansleman has been doing a series lately called weekly 'The Weekly Source Code' lastest one is here (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode22CAndVBNETLibrariesToDiggFlickrFacebookYouTubeTwitterLiveServicesGoogleAndOtherWeb20APIs.aspx)

There is also Codeplex, Code Gallery, Google Reader (subscribe to some blogs there are tons of them), Google Code Search, SourceForge, 2008 Virtual Launch, All the various new stuff for VS 2008, and the list goes on. I started keeping a list myself at del.icio.us.

Thanks for all the great resources guys. This should keep me going for a while.