http://bluegator.org:66/devel Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:34:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's my life in a nutshell. My wife and I put in an offer on a house (on a whim) which they accepted. We're now in the middle of trying to sell our house so that we can pay for the other house. Yes, our purchase of ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/09/03/pretty-much-slammed/ It would have to be like this. I guess there's just something fun about having a waterfall in my computer... Although does that mean I would have to pee a lot while working? http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/08/27/if-i-were-to-build-a-liquid-cooled-pc/ I spent the better part of a day last week trying to reconfigure our application exception handling. With our switch to a WCF service, our business layer's method of throwing exceptions for validation problems or as warnings became a bit, well, annoying. I actually thought I had a ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/08/26/exception-handling-application-block-and-wcf/ That's right, swimming. I don't really follow swimming that often, but the main excitement of these games so far has been Phelps' quest (and completion) of 8 gold medals. From the 4x100 relay, where 31 year old anchor Jason Lezak chased down the French anchor to win the ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/08/16/swimming/ That's right, it took me about two days (minus an hour here or there) to complete our exception handler. I know, that seems like a fairly long time, but it was a bit more than I anticipated. Plus, I have a habit of going overboard on certain things, ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/08/14/two-days-for-an-exception-handler/ I have a couple of features to implement for a side project, and I finally delved into the basics of PHP classes. I'm sure that I am not using the full functionality of the class, but at least I can now load objects from the database without repeating SQL ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/08/12/back-to-php-with-classes/ If I go a week or two without posting, it's usually due to laziness or a lack of any good topics. The lack of posting in these last few weeks can be attributed to having too much to do. Work is crazy. I've been tossed into our new ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/08/06/a-quick-nod-to-a-hectic-schedule/ I recently received an email from Fandango in which they proceeded to inform me that the last time I bought a movie ticket from them was for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Now, I almost always use Fandango for purchases, and I know for a fact that I ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/07/28/at-the-movies/ As I mentioned in my last twitter post, I've moved into the realm of uber-nerd. I'll do my best to explain how and why that is.A few months ago I started working from home 4 days a week. In an effort to keep myself from getting carpal tunnel ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/07/18/nerds/ I spent the better part of two hours fighting with the BackupPC backup service on my Linux server. The software itself is extremely powerful and a pretty good fit for what I want to do: backup multiple computers to one spot, then create CD archives. The problems I ... http://bluegator.org:66/devel/archives/2008/07/18/fighting-with-backuppc/