December 2009 Entries
Here's a little joke that’s timely if you follow American Football:
Old Cajun Boudreaux died and unfortunately he found himself in hell. The devil decided to make him particularly miserable so when Boudreaux arrived he really turned up the heat.
Boudreaux said, "Man, this heat reminds me of the days I spent fishing on the bayou in the middle of the summer."
This made the devil angry that he was not making him suffer, so he turned the heat up to maximum.
Again Boudreaux said "Man, if I knew hell would be like this I would not have feared it so...
This is the second installment in the development of my home automation system using LightSpeed 3.0 and various other tools. I’ve got an overview here and of course you are encouraged to read Part 1 before diving in here. I should mention before starting that I’ve changed a couple of projects in the solution. I’ve renamed the admin web application to: Gigabode.Admin.Web.UI. In addition, I’ve added a Gigabode.Admin.Web class library for classes that are specifically created to support the Admin Web UI. I decided to start by setting up some stuff that I’m going to be...
Just FYI, if you are a runner, and like myself want a metronome to help keep your cadence, I would recommend this little product: Crystal Metronome. It’s a very simple little app that lets you set a beats per minute (bpm) rate. You can then output it to an MP3, drop it on your very small MP3 player/IPod, and set it to repeat. For running I set it to 180 bpm. You can also select from some different sounds for the beats like a high-hat or wood block. A lot of Pose or Chi runners will use these little clip-on...
In my previous post, I mentioned the creation of a home automation application using LightSpeed 3.0 and ASP.Net. In this post, I’m going to start with an explanation of basic project setup. In the posts that follow, I’ll elaborate on the development of individual areas of the application.
Initial Solution Structure
The initial solution contains the following projects:
Domain – Includes the core domain model as well as the interfaces that may be used to operate on the model. Most of these interfaces will be implemented by the AppServices, DataAccess, and DomainServices libraries.
AppServices...
I’ve been thinking about putting together a physical training application for a while. I do a lot of running and working out, but I think I may have stress-fractured my foot a couple of weeks ago. So no better time than the present to work on something to help me in the future. I know there are a lot of training apps and running apps out there, but I thought I’d take a shot a writing one.
Hmm, I've made a change of decision on this one. A while back, a couple of friends and I were talking about a...
I’ve been a fan of Mindscape’s LightSpeed ORM for a while. I think that it’s a great alternative to LINQ to SQL (L2S) and NHibernate (NHib). I work in a shop where we use both NHibernate and L2S very heavily and I have great respect for both of these products, but I’d really like to attempt some real work projects with LightSpeed. Up to this point, I’ve used it to put together my own prototypes, which typically get moved to a different technology when I apply these technologies in the work environment. I plan on following up with some articles...