September 2006 Entries
Like I said previously…. going back to the VB6 world was shocking, but it did remind me of a few cool VB things that I’d kinda forgotten about. These aren’t specific to version 6 and are present in VB.NET of course. The first that comes to mind is IsNumeric. VB has a slew of Is[…] helper functions built in. Notice I didn’t qualify where it’s baked in. The one of the cool features of the .NET Framework as a platform (though I’m still not convinced how overly valuable it actually is….) is language agnosticism.
The common language class library makes this possible. ...
The client I’m currently working for has a very large web application. They are midstream in a migration from classic ASP and VB6 to .NET. It’s a very large code base and it will take some time to get there completely. Coming up to speed with the application has been a bit painful in it’s own right, but coming back to the world of VB6 after a ~4 year abscense has been especially shocking to my system. I catch myself sarcastically asking myself the same questions my java buddies used to ask me when I used to show off my self proclaimed gnarly VB...
I’m currently working with a client in Manhattan, and had the opportunity to be here for Sept 11th, 2006 - the 5 year anniversary of those tragic events.
This was the pic on the front page of the New York Times this morning. As I walked out of my hotel room this morning, and experienced that daily surprise of something colorful at my feet (the complimentary newspaper), this photo jerked at my attention. The first thing I did when I logged into my PC this morning was snag this from their site.
Amanda and I spent the weekend in the city and had...