March of dimes petition…
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 7th, 2008
My sister, and my buddy Lance both have had preemies. Sis shot me a link to the march of dimes petition here.
Please sign it if you get a chance.
Does this wii make me look fat?
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 22nd, 2008
So me and the misses picked up a wii fit the other week. These things have been selling like hotcakes, and we finally capitulated and picked one up. I’m the only one to give it a shot so far. The out of the box experience is pretty good, although it thinks I’m overweight, since it has to go by bmi. Granted, I could drop 15 lbs, but my bmi will probably always be on the heavy side, since riding bikes and lifting has given me a little muscle mass. Anyway, given a busy work schedule, it’s nice to have another excercize outlet, since leaving for the gym at lunch doesn’t always work. The excercises themselves are a mixed bag, some seem too easy, some are quite hard, like planks, side planks and push ups. The yoga poses are cool in that the balance pad quantitatively measures your balance. I’ll see if it holds my interest.
Costumes
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 20th, 2008
Guess what the kids are being for Halloween?
NHibernate and Asp.net MVC
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 8th, 2008
warning: contains nerdy content
This blog is currently running in word press, which looks pretty (due to someone else’s competence in web design), but php isn’t my forte, and I went with a paid hosting environment with the goal of writing some actual code in asp.net/c#
This weekend, amidst parental duties, I managed to sit down for 2 or 4 hours and play with NHibernate and the asp.net model view controller . My goal is to replace the output generated with wordpress with an mvc web application, using nhibernate as an object-relational mapper. I went with NHibernate over linq to sql or the new ado.net entity framework stuff because I wanted to use the MySQL database that wordpress is sitting on. That way I can rewrite the front end of the blog while continuing to use the composition and plugin possbilities of wordpress.
I got as far as a running nHibernate mapping reading from the wordpress db (all local to my home machine), and rendering it using a controller and view. It’s a bit of a mind bender coming from webforms development, but I like how simple it makes every component. The nHibernate side was really nice as well. The database details are all mapped out in xml configurations, and the objects that get loaded aren’t in any way tied to the persistence model or the presentation side, which makes them very easy to test, and simple to write and read.
I tried to upload this last night, but go-daddy’s hosting environment wasn’t playing well with a few mvc required assemblies. I’ll post more when I’m able to actually run it in a hosted environment.
Mandatory fun day
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2008
Sitting at chase field in a suite watchind dbacks vs cardinals. What a way to spend a workday. Just fell on my ass. Turns out if you stand up a stadium seat folds back up if you stand up.
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-02
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 2nd, 2008
- @bryanhales alright!! #
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-01
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 1st, 2008
- @bryanhales that’s just crazy. #
Blueberry pancakes
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 1st, 2008
Is there anything better than blueberry pancakes with maple syrup on a vacation day? Probably not.
Movin around
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 31st, 2008
Every year my registrar forgets to bug me about renewing this domain. Sick of missing out on email and leaving my numerous readers (hey, 1 is a number) without my blog, I decided to move to hosting and registering with a bigger entity. So now I’m hosted and listed at godaddy, running wordpress instead of letting blogger host. I want to write my own site in asp.net, but till I get around to it, this is really handy. I’m typing this post on my iphone using the free wordpress app. Feels pretty good so far.
