Been a bit
Well, the two long weeks are over. Vacation begins tomorrow. I feel something like a quitter... I've never taken a real vacation since graduation (nothing more than a weekend away from home) and I've never really cared to, I took a week off once while Veronica was working and spent a lot of that time writing code for myself. If felt great. Out of that week came the first serious attempt at a software application for Veronica's business. She has only hit 1 major snag (bad data I didn't stop in code) and it has otherwise been one of the key elements of her business which is running successfully. So a vacation where I leave my work and home for a full week... scares the hell out of me. Anyway, we shall see.
Code at work is at an OK place. Couldn't sit at my computer without getting an email, IM or phone call for more than 5 minutes, so I worked late into Thursday night to get one of the key components in place before leaving for a week.
Website hasn't been touched since my last post. Guess I need to get feedback from Veronica first. Might be simpler to go grab a domain and host somewhere and put it on the web for her. Once it is up and in the world she will quickly find a reason to start setting me straight :)
General notes on programming for the week... nothing special really. Started working on making more things into smaller reusable components, which is rather easy in Silverlight. In fact it is actually something I'm enjoying quite a bit. On a similar topic started a cross between a side-project and a work project which is building the perfect Auto-Complete Combo Box. Telerik has one which isn't exactly what is wanted and the Silverlight toolkit project has an auto complete text box where that component works perfectly, just without a button to control it. So, somewhere between wrapping something around it, or simply getting the source and changing it is the direction I'm heading in. Initial iteration has a button which turns the drop-down list on/off, but it doesn't work quite right, have to take focus from the auto complete box to do it at the moment, which means that A) you have 2 click twice and B) if you are turning the list back on, you have to start typing again before it shows up.
Code at work is at an OK place. Couldn't sit at my computer without getting an email, IM or phone call for more than 5 minutes, so I worked late into Thursday night to get one of the key components in place before leaving for a week.
Website hasn't been touched since my last post. Guess I need to get feedback from Veronica first. Might be simpler to go grab a domain and host somewhere and put it on the web for her. Once it is up and in the world she will quickly find a reason to start setting me straight :)
General notes on programming for the week... nothing special really. Started working on making more things into smaller reusable components, which is rather easy in Silverlight. In fact it is actually something I'm enjoying quite a bit. On a similar topic started a cross between a side-project and a work project which is building the perfect Auto-Complete Combo Box. Telerik has one which isn't exactly what is wanted and the Silverlight toolkit project has an auto complete text box where that component works perfectly, just without a button to control it. So, somewhere between wrapping something around it, or simply getting the source and changing it is the direction I'm heading in. Initial iteration has a button which turns the drop-down list on/off, but it doesn't work quite right, have to take focus from the auto complete box to do it at the moment, which means that A) you have 2 click twice and B) if you are turning the list back on, you have to start typing again before it shows up.
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