April 2008
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Shop Girl →
Watched Shop Girl last night with Gretchen. Steve Martin is always pleasant and Claire Danes looked fantastic. I need to turn over our Netflix list to her because her last few picks have been great and mine have been duds.
Application deployment tomorrow
After all the SQL errors, the ASP.Net security headaches, the last-minute, ill-defined JavaScript requests and one hell of a long day, I am ready for tomorrow. This is the worst planned deployment I have been a part of and I expect a lot of pain from the users. Funny thing is, this application rocks! It is so far beyond any web stuff I have done, I can’t believe I was able to do it. Looking...
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March 2008
72 posts
The day before we go live with the pricing application. Expecting a flurry of testing and programming today and tomorrow.
Special thanks to my parents for hosting this...
I’m all rested up for 2 long weeks of work before hitting the road to Chicago once again.
The Pinewood Supper Club →
Haven’t been there since college, but the service is as good as I remember it. The food is central WI comfort food - lot’s of fish and seafood. If you are near Mosinee and looking for a good place that represents the best of central Wisconsin hospitality, try the Pinewood.
The Pinewood
Ate at the Pinewood Supper Club tonight, which is about as good as it gets in central WI. If you eat there, I recommend the crab delights.
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At my dad’s house in WI. There is at least 6” of snow here. What to do with Grandpa and Grandma?
Sitting in Runar’s last daily meeting at Voyageur. He will be missed, but the client will soon see the mighty strengths of @csadala.
Back to development after a day of evaluating document generation tools. ‘Doxygen’ for C# and ‘Natural Docs’ for JavaScript.
I wasn’t thrilled with the Natural Docs output. Anyone know a better tool for JavaScript?
The hearty guy in the short sleeve YMCA shirt got off the bus and into the 28 degree night air. After last winter, 28 feels warm to some.
On the late bus with a junky, the weird people and one guy in a red, short sleeve YMCA shirt. Time to get home and get some sleep.
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‘Just Say Yes’ by Ben Lee is the...
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Science Fair Tonight
Science fair tonight with my son. Looking forward to seeing all the kid experiments and projects. I think L will do well.
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I am considering this song ‘All Will Be...
We went from 0 to 3” of snow and it’s still coming. Daughter is playing video games and it’s time for me to mop.
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Leaving early from work and heading home to help my son with his science fair project.
Kind of like a non-smoking, indoor, crazy smoke break with virtual smoke.
Twitter is the IT smoke break. Only healthier. And warmer. And with people you don’t see.
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Walking around Lake Calhoun back home. The weather is nice and I have a family night ahead of me. Looking forward to the long weekend.
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The ‘laser spy listening device’ isn’t quite working as planned, but Lars is learning about sound/light. That’s what it’s all about.
The astronomical growth in records has been the ‘moonwalking bear’ of this project.
It is obvious to me now that slicing through 10+million records from 6 tables, with improper indexing, will not work.
What is plan B? If we are powerless to the corporate db people, the prognosis for this app doesn’t look good.
Just spent the night trying to accomplish mission impossible. The app I am writing simply can’t make fast reads from such large tables.
Tomorrow I’ll roll out and test the Pricing Finalization logic, and then it’s on to production migration.
Got my ASP.Net/XML/Excel export done. The files are huge, but Excel opens them as native files. I cannot do better than that.
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Looking forward to planning next version and handing it off to the client. Only 3.5 weeks until I am back in Chicago.
Wrote some nice code to dynamically display buttons on a page using C#.