March 2005 - Posts
Rory posted yesterday about his vacation revelation . It was interesting reading for me as I had the same experience last summer while taking two weeks off to visit Charleston, SC. I checked my email twice while I was away - just to make sure there were no emergencies, but it was a little bit of work to do so as I didn't have a laptop with me and I had to wait for the hotel's facilities to be unused. It really was an eye-opening experience for me. Combined with the couple of times that I played golf...
About a month ago I was doing some R&D for a project we were contemplating taking on. Our portion of the project was to design the front end of a kiosk application for a large national retail company. They wanted to do a pilot of a couple of dozen kiosks in several of their stores. Their requirements were very well defined and most of the back end made use of their existing business systems using a COM layer that they were in the process of developing. Since the kiosks would be located in the...
Amazon has a shipping facility in Lexington, KY. I live about 25 miles north of Cincinnati, OH. It is about a 2-hour drive from Lexington to Cincinnati. Cincinnati is the main post office in this area and all mail emanates from there and is then sent to my local post office and then delivered to me. Because of my proximity to Amazon's shipping facility in Lexington I rarely spring for anything but their Super Saver 5-7 day shipping. Primarily because it usually only takes 2 days max to get to my...
Wow, it has been a while since I've sat down in front of this FreeTextBox interface and written anything. No, Ben Kanpurn, I have not given up on my blog. I'll use the same excuse as everyone else who ignores their blog for a short period - I was busy. Tons of stuff going on this past month, and I now have a growing buffer of things I will write about. As a reminder to myself, some of the upcoming topics will be my introduction to CodeSmith and how I am now using it in my development process, my...