Catch up…

September 10, 2008

I knew it’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but 2 weeks! There’s been so much going on it’s been hard to keep up with life, much less a blog, but here’s a few highlights (mostly geeky):

* Wrote a small C# app for a client, and had to deal with all the lovely intricacies of ‘publishing’ an app. Really, I *just* want to generate a EXE and give it to someone to test, but the VSExpress wizards didn’t have that option. The auto-numbering version stuff was sort of neat, but everything assumed (of course) this would all be pushed out to an IIS/Windows server. How do I know? Cause the directory and file names it made were capitalized, but the HTML page generated to link to the files used all lower-case references. Windows servers aren’t case sensitive, but Unix/Linux are. Just one more small little thing to make it harder to deploy on non-MS tech (and completely avoidable).

* Got Zend certified. Bit of a long story to this one I won’t bore you with here, but I managed to get that done last week. Was nervous as heck (always am before tests) but it went OK.

* Had a good catchup with Fred and Shawn from our Java group over dinner last night. Nothing amazing in and of itself, but it was *great* to just sit and talk tech with some friends for a few hours. Very refreshing. While I don’t know Fred or Shawn terribly well yet (have met each just a few times before) both are very sharp, experienced, and tolerated my rants, so automatically I think they’re great!

* Am making some more progress on my Groovy Magazine project. I think we’ll be ready for a Nov 1 launch. Oct would be too soon I think, given current schedules.

* Signed up for devunity.com - looks suspiciously like a system I’ve tried twice (unsuccessfully) to write, and if it’s half as good as I’m expecting, it’ll be awesome.