New pictures of Melanie and I are online. Most of the pictures are from our trip to Vermont last month.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
I passed the Microsoft C# beta exam 71-320 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with C#.
A new version of WASTEDBoarding.com was posted last night. It is a preview of things to come.
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!
My favorite feature of the day: Visual Studio.NET Database Project create command file.