Random .NET Ramblings

I had looked at this a few years ago when this project was started and there were not that many features implemented so I did not use it but I was just reminded of this from lessing to an old .NET Rocks show and wow now there are a ton of features so enjoy!

www.genghisgroup.com

Now playing: They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Looks like MSDN is doing some new .NET documentation design.

Junfeng Zhang's .Net Framework Notes

I released some code (based on others good works) on how to implement FTP in C# see my .NET FTP component post. Well I knew it was coming and I did not look in to it yet but here is a good post about how .NET 2.0 will implement FTP. Understanding the basic of FtpWebRequest programming model on .Net frameworks

I just got back from the latest San Diego .NET Developers Group meting, it was a great meeting! We had John Miller down from Orange county to talk about Test Driven Development & Automated Unit Testing in VS.NET. I did another look at JetBrains's ReSharper product.

After the meeting we had some good conversation about how outsourcing to India and eastern Europe will change software programming. As John pointed out the major problem with software development is the cross over of business needs and development understanding. My contention was that organizations have accepted that a certain percentage of software related projects will fail and instead of trying to build in more quality they are willing to accept that level of failure and are looking for ways to reduce the overall cost of software development.

I need to do some research but I think if organizations would implement good development processes (this the entire process, requirements on down) while this would increase initial costs of projects the percent of failures could be dramatically reduced.

Now playing: Evanescence - Understanding

I have 6 Gmail invitations if anyone wants them... Let me know soon!

If you don't know what Gmail is then you don't want one.

For the last few months I have been working at HP in Rancho Bernardo working with there Instant Share. I like the gig so far the people are smart and cool, I was brought in as a scaleablity expert so help them meat the ever increasing demand on there service. The code base is solid but there are some issues there but the biggest thing they need is a hardware refresh in production. So there operations group is trying to get all new hardware and get that setup I am also advocating for them to switch to Windows 2003 but they have some ISAPI filters and some old COM objects that need to be tested so I testing them on a killer test stack of equipment.

I will continue to post as I go through this project.

With the rebuild of my system I also switched a new bogging client. I had been using w.blogger and don't get me wrong w.blogger is good and the price it right (read free) but there it is a bit slow and has flaky support. The last beta of the next version was published in July so I looked around and tried BlogJet and wow simple yet still rich and easy. The only problem so far is that the Preferences are not kept where a limited user can change them so it looks like I have to run it as an administrative user to set Preferences :(.

I also have not gotten it to connect to my FTP so that it can upload images for me but I am sure that is just me doing something dumb.

Now playing: Kate Bush - Leave It Open

OK I think I am back from my blogging hiatus. I had to rebuild my system and just could not face the web UI way to post to this blog so until I got a blogging client setup I just did not blog anything.

No that dose not mean I have a backlog of things to blog about but at-least I can start back. I know the one lonely

Now playing: Paul Van Dyk - We're Alive [Breathless Remix]