I have been out of touch on this site for a very, very long time. I hope to be updating some things in the near future.

I have noticed an uptick in hits to my site for Gamma World Downloads as the key, so I am curious if people are actually downloading my Gamma World Game Assistant which was meant to be a complete character generator and item generator back when I wrote it. It was one of my first forays into thick client VB applications and now I write everything in Dot Net. I have been thinking about re-writing it in the 3.5 framework and perhaps even using some WPF to make it a snazzy interface, which would give me a good excuse to play with that technology.

By all means if you find anything on here something you like, or something you would like to see cclick on the contact me link and send me an e-mail, I enjoy communicating with Gamma World fanatics. :-)

Another long stint before I have updated the site, but this time a big update on the architecture side of things.

I have re-programmed the entire site in .NET and moved the host so that I could do more fun stuff on the site in .NET. I was using the free hosting availability of Earthlink before, and PHP just dont cut it (although it does the trick, I still program PHP for some clients).

I have implimented the Microsoft Master Pages functionality within the site to templateize it, and man it ROCKS. This feature will be part of Whidbey, but you can have the functionality now by downloading the ASP.NET teams sample code here.  Aparently it has some issues with client side scripting, but I hate client side scripting due to cross platform issues, so for me its a big win.

It has been a long time since I have updated the site, lifes moving way too fast.

I am now at a new company, and about to move to a great company on the 2nd of February. Seems the economy is turning around finally since I am getting calls about jobs again from recruiters and such. Woohoo!

I will have to spend some time in the next few days to go through the site and add some more content or update any outdated content (namely my Resume!).

Added a article on an application I wrote which is a very straight forward website monitoring program for multiple websites and report if it goes down through e-mail.

Built in .NET as a Windows Service with an XML configuration file for e-mails, timer, etc. Uses straight TCP calls so that you can send your own custom headers to the IP you want, it works really nice on an internal network, or on the regular internet! Let me know how you like it.

Added an articles section for articles that I will write on various subjects that might be of interest to someone. I have started it off with an article I wrote on Crystal Web Services and sending parameters through cookies.

Updated the SprocGen page today, please go check it out. Added the code base for that application in its old form, although I am reprogramming it to use the Abstract Factory Method pattern.

Added some documentation for the class layer I built at Rexall Sundown. You can check it out here:

RexallSundownLibrary.chm

There are most definately some typo's and I dont have complete code examples throughout the documentation, the Data Access block I had created is the most documented of them all (which odly enough after Microsoft put out theirs looks very similar, I think most of us hated writing that same code for data access, over, and over, and over!). It was a work in progress when we were let go. Lots of the programmers at Rexall used that block to connect to the database, so thats why its documented the most.

I basically followed the model view controller pattern at Rexall where the model was the classes listed in the help file above (product, individual), the view was the ASPX pages, and the controller was the code behind. I wasnt aware that I was using that pattern (or an abstract of that pattern). Recently I have been eating up patterns as fast as I can learn them.

If you're into patterns, or want to get into them, get a look at the GRASP (General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns) first, they are kinda like the grass roots that were built from knowledge and understanding of the GOF (Gang Of Four) patterns.

Changed up the layout of the website a bit, gonna leave the home page as a news information piece for the entire site, and to talk about things going on in the site, etc. Resume has been moved to its own little area on the left.