February 2006 - Posts
Came across a neat looking DSL (Domain Specific Language) for Visual Studio 2005 at Clipcode. I have not yet had a chance to download and use it, but ut certainly looks interesting from a code and design point of view.
One of the problems I have found with the original Design Patterns book is that the examples are hard to visualise unless you know the language they use(Sometimes they use Smalltalk, other times they use C). Now before I get flamed about not knowing those languages, I am sure that there are a lot of developers out there that do not dabble in those languages.
This DSL looks as if it may be useful from a design and even as a companion to the book. I am looking foreward to getting it up and running in the next few days.
Started the new assignemnt yesterday, and boy, is it an exciting one (lashings of sarcasm there). It looks as if I will be Access 2000 to Access 2003 Conversion boy for a few weeks. The challenge I geuss is to make it interesting. Now, if only I could convince them to use a real database server.......
As well as the access conversion, they are moving 2 servers (App and Internet) to 1 server. (where it was about 4 years ago - isn't it funny how technologies keep repeating themselves.) That should be lots of fun.
And the QMSDNUG is on tonight, so that should be interesting as well. Paul Woods is giving a talk on Biztalk, and Craig McMurtry on WCF/WWF. See you there.
Cheers
Well, finally got the new version of community server installed. I really like the responsive feel to the UI, as well as the content editing which is in place editing.
I will be adding the archived posts at a later date. Also, I will be upgrading again when the release comes out.
I finished up at a client on Friday, where we were doing a web site using Plumtree Portal and VB.NET/Visual Studio 2003.
Till next time