Archive for April, 2007

Random updates

19 Apr, 2007  Leave a comment!

Man, its been far too long since I last posted, and the last post wasn’t even (that) geeky.

Heres what been going on:

  • I’ve been using MonoRail for a side project. I don’t think I’ll even develop another .net web site that doesn’t use MonoRail. The productivity gains are insane. You can get a working forms-over-data application up and running in no time, and thats not even using the Scaffolding support. It feels great to be liberated from TextBox, Label, and GridView objects :) I almost suggested using MonoRail for a project at work, but I decided against it because its a short project (~2 months) a I couldn’t justify the time for the learning curve, maybe next time.
  • I finally got Vista installed at home, and I brought up the other monitor from the basement, so now we’ve got a dual flat panel setup upstairs which is nice. I’m liking Vista so far, but I got a scare recently when I booted up and I couldn’t get past the screen that says: “Press -Tab for network book options…” Nothing worked, it would just freeze. I finally started unplugging stuff and it ended up being the Seagate FreeAgent drive that I had. So thats unplugged for now, we’ll revisit that at a later date. The UAC isn’t nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. I’m a sucker for the eye candy, and I haven’t even upgraded to 2 gigs of RAM yet.
  • Jason Bock has been raving about the new Rush album, and though I’m definitely not a Rush fan, I heard the new single on KQRS and I gotta say, its not half bad :) The new song that I’m really digging is the new one from Maroon 5, its not on Yahoo Music yet, but you can hear it at their web site: http://www.maroon5.com/hi_fi

I’m gonna try and get back on the posting bandwagon, but thats enough for now.