January 2008 Entries
Today was the 3M half marathon. What a day! I got up at 4:50 on about 4 hours of sleep (tossed and turned like I always do before events). This is my first running event since splitting the Austin marathon 5 or 6 years ago. I slugged a protein shake w/ banana, got in the car and headed north. It didn't take me nearly as long as I thought to make it up north with no traffic, which was great because I had plenty of time to "do ma thang etc..." before the race started. I saw some Gazelles, and...
I did my first run at Meriden today with Gilbert's Gazelles. This was a pretty intense run. We did 5 laps of the approximately 1K loop. I ran together with Roger, Chris and Phil. The up and downs are pretty difficult. Running down the steep incline towards the end on Meriden, I could hear my feet slapping the pavement. I need to figure out how to mellow that out. Chris was dropping the pain on us basically at will, but it's always good to have a rabbit. Then afterwards, he skipped the other exercises. That's not even fair. ...
Previously in this series: WhoDaBest - Post 1, WhoDaBest - Post 2, WhoDaBest - Post 3, WhoDaBest - Post 4 I think I've been spending more time running and working out than doing dev lately. I made an attempt to get refocused for a bit today and accomplished a few things. First of all, I just don't like the term "Foundation", so I renamed my WhoDaBest.Foundation project to WhoDaBest.Commons. I was also trying to think of the best way to set up my IOC container today, for which I have chosen Castle Windsor. It...
I did my first really long run in a while today. "Long" is a relative term, but today's run was around 14 miles. I felt really good almost the whole time. I didn't run very fast after Thursday's "tempo run", which was intense, probably 7.5 minute miles on average. I was still a little sore from the training last week. I'm really just getting back into the running "stride". The Thursday tempo run is basically a 4 mile "race" with all of the guys/gals in the group. It was my first tempo run. I run with Gilbert's Gazelles...
Little late on the bandwagon here, but Ray Houston pointed me to Windows Live Writer with the paste from Visual Studio plug-in. Should make code blogging a lot easier! Technorati Tags: .Net,Blog
Previously in this series:
WhoDaBest - Post 1, WhoDaBest - Post 2, WhoDaBest - Post 3
OK, so I've already realized there is a problem with my base repository class. I was getting ready to create my first domain entity, which will be a "Role" class, and it's associated concrete repository and I realized that with the way it is set up, if I just extend the base repository, there is no way of doing any kind of unit tests without putting together some kind of test database and this just won't do. I don't want the overhead, especially since I don't...
Previously in this series:
WhoDaBest - Post 1
WhoDaBest - Post 2
So I've made a couple of decisions. The first is that I'm going with tools from CastleProject.org for my object-relational mapping (ORM) and for my inversion of control (IOC). I'll talk about IOC later, but first I want to focus on ORM. Castle's ActiveRecord is open source and sits on top of NHibernate. I've used NHib by itself, and it's a great tool, but there are a number of nice little features that Castle ActiveRecord gives you that I like a lot, such as transaction management, mapping attributes (so no hibernate mapping xml files),...
Previously in this series:
WhoDaBest - Post 1
So I've done some initial infrastructure for WhoDaBest.com. What is "WhoDaBest"? You'll just have to wait and see as it develops.
Subversion Setup
The first step was to set up version control for which I'm using Subversion. I've got an old desktop in the other room which has become my Subversion server. Amazing how easy it was to set this up. I've been a user of Visual SVN for a little while now, and I noticed a while back that they had put together a Visual SVN server. This installer pretty much makes it idiot proof...
Uncle Norman is a fixture of our family and will be sorely missed. He is a prime example of what the "Greatest Generation" was all about.
The Lord called our beloved “Papa” home on Monday, January 7, 2008. Papa entered this world on September 10, 1916 weighing less than two pounds. His Mom always said she could put her wedding ring over his hand, he was so small. The only form of heat in the house was the fireplace, and his Mom said she put him in a shoe box by the fire to keep him warm. A child of the depression, he...
So I'm going to be creating a new .Net project from the ground up. Typically I inherit projects from others so I don't get to build things the way I'd like from the ground up. What I want to try to incorporate are the following technologies:
NHibernate / Castle ActiveRecord - Probably NHibernate via active record. I will use the Active Record Mediator instead of inheriting
Castle Windsor - For dependency injection.
TDD - Try to actually write tests with the code, optimally before the code. Probably NUnit here....