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So, Ben got to sleep at a much more normal time last night (around 11pm), and slept right through. I got a pretty decent night's sleep as well, but Kris has been sick since she got back from Seattle. I figure it's the combination of rapid climate change plus being enclosed in two coast-to-coast airplanes breathing recycled germs from all the other passengers. She seems to be feeling kind of better now, but definitely needs more sleep.
Ben and I went out today just to pass the time, and wound up over at the Florida Mall. On the way there I saw an RV towing a Hummer H2. My first thought was, if you have an H2 do you really need an RV? My second thought was, it would probably be more fuel efficient to have the H2 tow the RV. Anyway, while we were at the mall Ben took me in a different direction than usual and wanted to ride on the train. They have this little train that goes in a loop inside the mall - you just sit in it and go around and around for three minutes. Ben loved it.
Sara was twenty minutes late picking Ben up tonight. No big shock there.
The other thing I have been doing, both yesterday and today, was trying to figure out how to do client-side callbacks from within our framework on v.net. It's something that will be pretty easy to do when the 2.0 version of .NET ships, but it is by no means impossible to do with v1.1. You just have to do more heavy lifting. Mostly I am trying to wrap my head around the concept. The topic came up in the new issue of MSDN magazine that came in the mail on Friday and it piqued my interest. So it's about 50% personal growth and 50% working on the weekend. If I can figure out how to wire it up, it would be a huge win. There are a lot of cases in our current application where the page has to make a complete round trip to the server just to populate a listbox. If I can do that in the background without the page refreshing it will be a vast improvement to the end user experience. I'd say at this point I am about 90% there. The trick is doing it in a way that makes sense now, and which can be ported over to 2.0 in just a few months with a minimum of re-work.
So that was my day. I'm going to bed now.
Ben and I went out today just to pass the time, and wound up over at the Florida Mall. On the way there I saw an RV towing a Hummer H2. My first thought was, if you have an H2 do you really need an RV? My second thought was, it would probably be more fuel efficient to have the H2 tow the RV. Anyway, while we were at the mall Ben took me in a different direction than usual and wanted to ride on the train. They have this little train that goes in a loop inside the mall - you just sit in it and go around and around for three minutes. Ben loved it.
Sara was twenty minutes late picking Ben up tonight. No big shock there.
The other thing I have been doing, both yesterday and today, was trying to figure out how to do client-side callbacks from within our framework on v.net. It's something that will be pretty easy to do when the 2.0 version of .NET ships, but it is by no means impossible to do with v1.1. You just have to do more heavy lifting. Mostly I am trying to wrap my head around the concept. The topic came up in the new issue of MSDN magazine that came in the mail on Friday and it piqued my interest. So it's about 50% personal growth and 50% working on the weekend. If I can figure out how to wire it up, it would be a huge win. There are a lot of cases in our current application where the page has to make a complete round trip to the server just to populate a listbox. If I can do that in the background without the page refreshing it will be a vast improvement to the end user experience. I'd say at this point I am about 90% there. The trick is doing it in a way that makes sense now, and which can be ported over to 2.0 in just a few months with a minimum of re-work.
So that was my day. I'm going to bed now.