December 2008 Entries
I found this article insightful. Since taking IDesign's Architect's Master Class this past summer I've been putting more thought into what constitutes a "facet" of a system that should be pulled into its own class in the name of the Single Responsibility Principle. The article develops some basic "why's" along these lines. http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung/archive/2008/12/21/ddd-specifications-language-and-locality.aspx
Timmy and I have been playing with this cool little program called Comic Life. It's super easy to use. Here is the first production; keep in mind that an eight year old did everything here except snap the photos. He built the lego stuff and put it where he wanted it, telling the story he had in his mind.
This little drawing also came from a longer segment of the violin concert. You can click on these to see them full size.
Our family was at a violin concert. While we were waiting for Andrea to play, it got just a little bit long, so I drew this comic for Timmy. He didn't think it was as funny as I did. Timmy has been playing with some comic things as well; I'll post those soon.
Just wanted to note this post that helped me get set up. http://blechie.com/WPierce/archive/2006/08/18/SubText_and_Windows_Live_Writer.aspx
I've finally gotten a dedicated server set up with serverpronto.com. That server is now hosting this blog. It's really nice to finally have a well-connected web server that I can control by RDP'ing in. I will say I'm not too impressed with serverpronto. They are cheap -- way less money per month than anyone else. You get what you pay for, right? They say they'll have it set up in 24 hours of signing on. I signed on Sunday night and didn't get my welcome email until early Thursday AM. I called on Tuesday and they said they were having...
I've got a little server sitting in my cabinet; it serves up my own source control server, a little web server, and a few other things. It runs on an old box, and I've wanted for quite some time to move all that stuff to a virtual machine, but wasn't sure how to go about it. I'm not sure how this will fly, but I've been playing with this great software, Image for Windows (http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm) and have the following plan:
Get an image of the C drive.
Set up a new VM with MSVPC.
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