Development Posts from Chris Hammond

http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2004/01/16/59594.aspx

There are photos circulating on the net of Saddam's capture, they appear to be taken by someone that was part of the capture, maybe a soldier, maybe someone else.

I spent an hour or so today going through stored procedure calls for DnnCart today, converting them all to SQLHelper calls, and array based parameters. Still have quite a few more to do, but I am over half way through the existing calls. Once I get these done I am going to start adding some core functionality to the cart, so that there are multiple administration options for ordering, payment processing, and other features...

Reading Eric Lippert's latest post, who was commenting on Joe's post

Of the 4 real developers here at my employer (the two AS/400 developers don't count, they are old and don't do much but complain), I am the only one here. Our “leader” is out on personal issues, I think he's on his way out the door, but really have no idea if he is or not. My buddy, another .net developer and powerebuilder dev. is in Boston getting training for an accounting software package, and then there's our other guy. This other guy left yesterday to go get his Girlfriend's daughter from daycare... Then today he's out, I have no idea why, but he's available by cell. He's always gone, I swear at least once a week, there's no way he has any vacation or personal time left.

I got myself un-moderated on ASP.NET forums yesterday! I've been trying to answer more DNN questions over there http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=90 and one of the moderators so kindly made it so my posts no longer have to go through the moderation queue!

I worked this evening on adding a comments field for products in the DnnCart, so that when placing an order the user is able to add a comment, such as “2003 Nissan 350Z”, for a product, so that the order processing person knows what make/model of vehicle the part should be for.

Today I am working on adding a new field to the product user control, so that a customer can enter a comment on a specific product, which will be helpful with stores like SoloPerformance.com so that you can have a product that someone can order and they can tell you the make/model/year of their vehicle, without having to have the database setup with a product for each specific make/model/year which could make the database extremely large! This would only work for products that are the same price for each make/model/year, if the price were to differ it would be quite a bit more complex...

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I spent most of the evening, and early morning working on getting a site I have running on DNN setup with .Text blogs. Here are some of my thoughts and how I got it working.

Well, I switched from SprintPCS back in late October to get a Mpx200 from AT&T Wireless... I love the phone, no complaints about it whatsoever, but I have to say I am not impressed with AT&T at all.

The new tires are on the car. I got Falken Ziex 512s from Autotire in Ballwin Missouri this afternoon. Thanks for the quick work guys! They had to replace a stud and lug that wasn't too friendly when it came off, but they got it all done and me out the door in under two hours.

It appears to be time for tires for the 350.... Oops, I should know to never get them that low! It's also time for an alignment, I haven't had one done yet, and with all the races I guess I got a little extra toe out than expected.

UBB.Classic 6.7 went to Beta a few days ago, and it looks like they have an import/export function on the software now. That may help me with the development of the import/export for ASP.net Forums V2 that I am trying to work on. Hopefully I'll get to play with the beta, and then the public release pretty soon to see if it will help me out with what I plan to do.

I purchased 5 domain names yesterday a .com .net .org .us .biz, all for a planned release later this spring.

So, I haven't been sick sick for quite a while, not at all this year if I recall correctly. Well, I think the time has come. I didn't take my vitamins to California with me, and now that I am back I think I have caught a cold. I really am not a big vitamin freak, maybe I should be, but I think from now on they will travel with me!!!

Tonight Josh W., one of the DNN core developers messaged me about SoloPerformance.com. He's got a client that needs a store application, and the other applications already out there don't seem to offer the features that they need.

I posted about wifi last week and today I get to rave about it even more. I am sitting in the small, tiny, little terminal here in Long Beach. I am an hour early so I was going to plug my laptop in and do some work, when I spy across the terminal a sign that says “Hot Zone: Free wireless internet access”, so I hook up the network card, and boom I am online! This wifi is just too darn cool :D