Looking for the Groove Again
I spent quite a bit of time working SharePoint both in an independent project and bug-fixing other people’s work over the last six or seven months. Once you get the paradigm down, it’s not too bad but not exactly a barrel of laughs either. You spend equal thirds of your time developing, debugging and tinkering with the xml files that make up the belly of the beast. I believe that after some old-school SQL work finishes up I’ll be back in that groove. Yippee… I need to noodle around with those certifications too but that’s another story.
My reason for not blogging recently has been that a new toy caught my eye and I’ve been goofing around with Silverlight 2 for the last few months in pretty much all of my spare time. I’ve spent no less than 30 minutes and sometimes upwards of 2 hours a night tinkering out my new application. This is something that I suppose is possible with flash but I’m not a flash guy so I can’t say for sure. The idea of this hit me a few years ago and I was trying to implement it with ajax with limited results. SL makes it relatively easy.
About 2 months ago the hard drive on my personal machine crashed and fried the controller. It might have been the other way around but I ended up losing a load o’ code and had to start from scratch with the original images and the requirements docs I had emailed to myself. Now I’ve got carbonite.
So the application is free for now and I’m going to replace all images with updates from my spankin’ new DSLR. The buttons need templates, the colors of the controls stink and the images take far too long too long to load. That said I think it’s a pretty rich experience. Check it out if you have SL2 installed.
I’d be interested in any input from the peanut gallery…