Catch Up Time

It’s been a long while as I experimented with a new front-page, and hated it. Finally, I am back to WordPress with the goal to blog at least once a week. However, today, I need to catch up everyone for the past several weeks.

Time has been good to me. I have been writing several articles for Search-This, primarily focused on Object Oriented Programming, but I have had a few others here and there, and am always looking for suggestions for upcoming articles. On top of that, my wife and I bought a house in Lima, OH. We have been living it for a little over a month now (actually 41 days, but who’s counting?). Then if that weren’t exciting enough, we got a dog!

The dog’s name is Spunky. It’s primarily a name to describe his personality than anything else, as he is one spunky pup who feels he owns the house I just bought! But we love him. He is a Papillon (pronounced pap-i-on, the l’s are silent) and will get anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds (I’ll try to put pictures up at a later time).

Finally, work has been keeping me extremely busy as I rewrite one of our biggest applications to correct all of it’s XML flaws. See, as an insurance company we try to follow the ACORD standard, and this application was written as the first .NET project for the company. With that said, no one really knew what ACORD was, and we just try to mimic what we felt it was. This is now biting us in the end, and its my job to correct it and I am getting close to having a product ready for testing. I am just now getting the UI finished up and then it’s off to testing by me, then our “QA” department if you will call it that (other individual in tech asked to do specific sets of tests). Well this project has been consuming a LOT of hours from me, roughly 320 hours right now, and I projected about 450, so I am doing good.

In short, that is the time between my last post and today. Hopefully, I can keep my promise and I expect everyone to harass me when I miss a week.