This morning, I was in “the zone”. I had a very specific set of tasks I wanted to complete, and with some focus, I completed them! These included finishing off design documents for a .NET project I am managing, as well as fixing a problem with the installation of some .NET libraries on my work…
I’ve been doing a lot of C# programming lately and for the life of me, I keep making the same dump coding error. Instead of doing this: if (objFoo.IsNew) I have been doing this: if (objFoo.IsNew = true) The thing is, I know that the second way is wrong and will lead to all kinds…
I had a plan going into work this morning: that before the morning was over, I would solve the problem of calculating email availability stats that has been plaguing me for the last severals months. After using some test data to test my data aggregation script, and then running it against real data, it looks…
I have been immersed in ASP.NET code since 7 AM with ne’re a breath taken, but I am coming up for air now, and my office has materialized around me. It’s strange, but when I get into what my friend Jim called “progammer mode”, the physical world dissolves around me. I don’t see my office,…
I rarely talk about work, and specifically what I do there, but I have recently been working on a small, but interesting project that I think is worthy of description. It’s a project resource tool. You see, we have numerous project managers for the endless list of projects that have to be managed. Naturally, there…
I did a little work on the reading website tonight, but nothing published publically yet. I’m working on two new features. One shows a list of future books that I’ll be reading. The other shows estimated completion dates for current and future books, as well as progress on the current book. I’m also thinking about…
I am superman! Earlier this week, I wrote about a problem I was trying to solve with some software packages I was integrating at work. I had more or less given up doing it the elegant way and had resigned myself to doing it a more complicated way. This morning, I got it working the…
Those were the watchwords of my day at work today. One of the projects on which I am working involves integrating two systems that don’t talk to each other. One system is an off-the-shelf meeting room reservation system; the other product is a tasking application–a helpdesk trouble ticket system. Integration went pretty well, until a…
I’ve been working on a tough database problem at work that involves triggers and recursive activity for a software system we’re building. I’ve been in the design phase for a few weeks now and today was the first day that I started on the actual coding. I’ve been “heads-down” in code all day, since getting…
I spent a few hours this morning getting the RSS feeds for my reading lists working. There is now a single feed for each list. The feeds are limited to books only; short items are excluded. I’ll probably include short items in the future. I’ll also eventually get around to adding a single master RSS…