Andrew Huey | pointlessly blogging since 2001
In case anyone’s interested, here are all the parts I ordered from Newegg:
According to their order status page, everything shipped today, so I should see it all at some point next week. After I get the thing put together, maybe I’ll post some notes on how everything worked out.
I bought Steve McConnell’s Code Complete about 10 years ago. I never quite finished reading it, but I dusted it off at some point last year, and I’ve been reading a chapter every once in a while, when I get the chance. I just finished chapter 18, on code layout. Most of the stuff he’s writing about is stuff I know from experience at this stage in my career, but it’s still worthwhile to reinforce good habits occasionally. And, sometimes, he points out something that hadn’t occured to me, or brings up something I’m not familiar with. There’s a second edition out now that’s probably worth getting, but I think I’ll just try and finish the first edition before I worry about that.
I went ahead and ordered a bunch of new parts for my computer from Newegg today. I’m getting a new motherboard, processor, video card, DVD burner, power supply, memory, and hard drive. Hopefully, good enough to hold me for the next three years. (The last time I did this was in late 2002.) I should be OK for Vista, too, whenever that comes out. (I checked the compatibility list for video cards, and I’ve got one that should work with all the new fancy Vista graphics stuff.) Let’s hope all the parts play well with each other, and I don’t break anything trying to put it all together.
I made my way through chapter 2 of ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer’s Notebook today. I’ve really been putting off learning .NET 2.0 and VS.NET 2005, but I’m starting to get motivated now. Partially, I guess it’s the whole “New Year’s resolution” thing. I’ve also been listening to a lot of Dot Net Rocks lately, so that’s helping out on the motivation front. After I get through this book, I’ve got another ASP.NET 2.0 book, a SQL Server 2005 book, Expert C# Business Objects, and a couple of other random programming books to read.
I’ve only just started playing around with VS.NET 2005. This thread answered one nagging question I couldn’t quite figure out on my own.
I exported all my Spurl bookmarks to del.icio.us today, and set it up so new Spurls will go to del.icio.us automatically. The bookmarks are at del.icio.us/andyhuey if anyone’s curious. I went through and added tags to all the bookmarks in del.icio.us. I’m wondering now if there’s any way to pull them back into Spurl.