I now have three O’Reilly books on .Net that I need to read:
Programming C#, and
Hopefully, I can make it through enough of this stuff to get to the point that I can do some useful work with C# and ASP.NET!
Andrew Huey | pointlessly blogging since 2001
I now have three O’Reilly books on .Net that I need to read:
Programming C#, and
Hopefully, I can make it through enough of this stuff to get to the point that I can do some useful work with C# and ASP.NET!
Wound up working late both yesterday and today. Hopefully, I can get home on time tomorrow. I’m tired and cranky, darn it!
Yikes! It looks like my Dad has discovered my home page. (At very least, he’s discovered my guest book.) I’m going to have to be careful what I say now!
In case anyone ever wants to look through all my really old Blog entries, I just created index pages for 2001 and 2002. Apparently, I started Blogging in June 2001, and I haven’t stopped. I also haven’t said anything interesting yet, either. Oh well.
“Even if money can’t buy happiness, it sure can buy a really nice TV.”
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No C# tonight. I’ve been paging through some old issues of DDJ from 1996. Ah, for the days when articles about PowerBuilder occasionaly appeared in mainstream programming magazines. And Java was new. And the Year 2000 problem was just starting to freak people out. I let my subscription to DDJ lapse in 1996, and I’ve had the last few issues just sitting, unread, under the microwave since then. Time to finish them off and put them out at the curb, methinks.
I just spent the last 2 hours working on converting an old C++ program to C#. I sorta like C#, but this particular program used every part of C++ that C# trashed or changed drastically: function pointers, unions, friend classes, oddball stream handling, and other stuff like that. That’s good, of course, since the whole point of this exercise is to learn C#. Actually, I haven’t used C++ in so long, I don’t remember what some of the fancy stuff in this program is doing anyway.
Stumbled across William Gibson’s web site tonight. Pretty cool. And he’s got a new book coming out! I remember reading, and loving, Neuromancer when it first came out. I’ve read most of his other books, and they’re all pretty nice, too, especially The Difference Engine. The front page of the site looks a little like it was designed by Dave McKean.
I managed to install IIS on my XP Home machine today, but the whole thing was a little iffy. I couldn’t bring up pages in Mozilla, only Explorer. Other stuff was not as it should be. It was just, you know, odd. So I gave up and uninstalled it. I got an interesting error doing that. It worked though. It went away. So now I’m resigned to NOT doing ASP.NET stuff on my home desktop machine for now. My laptop (running Win 2K Pro) should be able to support IIS, and hence ASP.NET, so maybe I’ll give that a go at some point. And I can probably do other .Net stuff on the XP Home machine, like C# with SharpDevelop. I’ll let you know how that goes. (Whoever you are.)
For some reason, I’ve been very “easily amused” today. I’m even laughing at the boy-band episode of the Simpsons. I’m laughing at just about everything, in fact. What the hell is wrong with me?