I read this blog post this morning and taught that it was giving good advices:
Five tips for starting a programming career
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=2231&tag=nl.e055
The tip to work on more projects and getting involved with an existing project are ones I will put in practice in the coming days. I am expecting that it will make life a bit harder but I am certainly ready to learn a lot from this.