Thursday, August 29, 2002
From Burton's 2003 web site:
We stand sideways.
We sleep on floors in cramped resort hotel rooms.
We get up early and go to sleep late.
We've been mocked.
We've been turned away from resorts that won't have us.
We are relentless.
We dream it, we make it, we break it, we fix it.
We create.
We destroy.
We wreck ourselves day in and day out and yet we stomp that one trick or find that one line that keeps us coming back.
We progress.
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
After posting the VBScript below I realized I could have simply created .reg file that has the registry entries to import. Oh well. The VBScript approach gave me a reason to play with VBScript.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 27 05:32 PM | comments (1)I used Windows Explorer all the time to navigate my hard drive. Many times throughout the day I need to drop to MS-DOS within a specific directory. I'm too lazy to drop to DOS and navigate using the command line so I created a registry entry that will launch a CMD window from Windows Explorer and place me in the selected directory. You can run the following VBScript to do the same for yourself.Set WshShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
WshShell.RegWrite _
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\Command Window\Command\", _
"CMD /K cd /d %L"
As an added bonus, you can run the VBScript below to create a menu item that will launch a CMD window that has been setup for the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET tools.
vsnetPath = _
"d:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
Set WshShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
WshShell.RegWrite _
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\Open VS.NET Command Window Here\Command\", _
"CMD /K """ + vsnetPath + """ : cd /d %L"
Be sure to modify the path above to match your installation of Visual Studio.NET.
To use launch an instance of Windows Explorer and navigate to the desired directory. Right mouse click the directory name and select Open Command Window Here or Open VS.NET Command Window Here menu item. Now ain't that nice?
Friday, August 23, 2002
I finally got around to setting up CVS at home with secured access using OpenSSH. The magic formula was Cygwin, my favorite open source product of the moment. And best of all I have ViewCVS running for browser based, read-only access to my CVS repository. WASTEDBoarding.com and Alt.System projects are already in the repository and are available for your viewing pleasure.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 23 10:16 PM | comments (0)New pictures of Melanie and I are online. Most of the pictures are from our trip to Vermont last month.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 23 11:04 AM | comments (0)Get this crap...Daily news from Louisville, Kentucky and Southern Indiana from courier-journal.com The Jim Beam bourbon-making plant in Bullitt County is disputing a Kentucky Labor Cabinet citation involving toilet breaks for the plant's bottlingline workers.
Under a policy implemented in October, line workers at the Jim Beam Brands Co. plant may use the restroom only during lunch and two other scheduled daily breaks, one before lunch and one after. They also are allowed one unscheduled toilet break per day, and can be disciplined for taking more, starting with a warning and escalating to dismissal after six incidents.
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
I know I have been weak on the tech note postings but my geek life has been very busy this month. But for those interested, my favorite .NET feature of the day is Visual Studio.NET's Installer class. This puppy rocks! With it you can create custom actions in the setup wizard. I have created two .MSI files today that update the application config files with database connection settings provided by the user running the setup wizard. Very nice, I must say...
posted by Kirby Turner | August 21 12:30 PM | comments (1)Sunday, August 18, 2002
Melanie and I just returned from our first trip to Cape Cod. Rachel and Dana, our wonderful host for the weekend, invited us up for the weekend. We stayed in a cute cottage owned by Dana's parents. This private community was neat. All the cottages look like miniature houses. We spent Saturday and Sunday out on the beach...Melanie getting more tan and me, well, I stayed white with my SPF 50. The highlight of the weekend was me finally beating Melanie at miniature golf. Yep, it's true. She was not playing at her typical level and I was in the zone, if you can believe that.
I must say visiting the Cape was very relaxing. And I hope Rachel and Dana invite us up again.
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
My DSL provider must have had a hiccup because my machine at home is back online. The music is streaming and the WASTED Crew is hardly working, I mean working hardly, I mean working hard on the next update to the site.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 14 07:23 PM | comments (3)Bummer. My machine at home went down unexpectedly. This means WCAV Radio is off the air for the moment, and WASTEDBoarding.com is not accessible. This sucks too because I was testing my new WSDL Validator against WSDLs stored on that machine.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 14 05:30 PM | comments (3)Wednesday, August 07, 2002
I passed the Microsoft C# beta exam 71-320 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with C#.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 7 06:59 PM | comments (9)Monday, August 05, 2002
A new version of WASTEDBoarding.com was posted last night. It is a preview of things to come.
posted by Kirby Turner | August 5 07:06 AM | comments (0)Friday, August 02, 2002
I have said it before and I will say it again. XML Serialization ROCKS! I am working on a new version for WASTEDBoarding.com this weekend and I am taking a totally new approach to the architecture of the software. One approach includes using XML Serialization to save object hierarchies to a SQL Server database.
Here's how it works. All my core classes are serializable. ToString() has been overridden to return the object hierarchy in an XML string. I pass the XML string to a stored procedure in SQL Server, which in turns saves out the information to the appropriate tables. All of this totally rocks!
