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Hey Mike, sorry I haven’t been as entertaining this week

So anyways, what’s been going on this week? Well it’s been somewhat hectic, and I’ve had several things to post about but no time to do it. So I guess I’ll just do a week in review sort of thing and hopefully will have the time to expand upon them later.

So for starters, this week has been a fun-filled week of user testing, with several people from the client in the office testing our fixes to the software before it gets pushed out. It’s a very hectic time for most people in the office, and as I was always taught, “Shit rolls down hill…”. That said, me being the low man on the totem pole I caught alot of shit. Not that big of a deal though, as I still had a pretty good week. Best part about client’s showing up and taking over the office is you don’t have to purchase lunch at all, and sometimes even breakfast showed up.

Beyond doing some Crystal Reports fixes and the occasional delve into PowerBuilder I’ve concentrated a good bit of my down time to an application for building .NET configuration files for all our various applications. This brought to my realization that some standards need to be put in place for us developers so that we make similar configuration files. On the other hand, having a plethora of different configuration files has made my configuration file generator much more useful. My basic idea behind it was to write it once and never have to recompile it again as we add new programs to our system. So I’ve been coming up with a nice XML schema that basically covers all the different ways we can (and I hope to extend that so that anyone could use it) build a configuration file. After youv’e got the program running, you (the developer) would just build an XML document that defines the configuration file and drop it into the plugins folder and from there anyone can build a new configuration file for that application.

After that, I’ve just been doing alot of gaming in Oblivion, and some web design. The idea is to launch two sites by the end of next week, and hopefully while I’m at it get my CSS Reboot done in time as well. These two extra websites should help with that somewhat since all three sites will have a Wordpress 2.x backend.

Anyways, back to work I go.