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Playing with C# – Made A Client-Server Remote Monitoring Tool

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Well, as usual things have been a little more hectic than I was expecting but I am enjoying most moments of the days past. Work has been really busy as we have been trying to launch our new platform, which I think I had mentioned is a full-fledged Microsoft environment consisting of Commerce Server, CRM, and SharePoint.

Personally, making the jump from PHP to C# has been a bit of… a bag of mixed emotions? At times I love it, hate it, want to kill it, marry it, etc… You get the point. There is quite a learning curve, as there is with any programming language, but my mind seems a bit reluctant to leave PHP behind. I have, however, been forcing myself to learn it; and fast! I have been building some necessary web parts at work that we need to help build microsites on the new platform.

Along with programming with C# at work, I have been spending some of my nights developing proof of concept pieces of software as a hands-on learning experience. So with that; I have successfully built a (simple) Client-Server monitoring tool utilizing Lidgren Networking Library for .NET (to handle my network communication between client and server). Continue reading →

As Usual

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As usual, it is been a hell of a long time since I have had time to write something here. This year has flown by… lost a job, lost a loved one, business idea failed, got a 6-month contract; it came and went, went to E3, went to a concert (Coheed and Cambria), flew in a private jet, endured “the Armpit of America”, went to IndieCade and turned 25 somewhere in between. I am sure a lot more happened in between but my point is; it has been interesting, sad, fun and quite a blur.

So I said my 6-month contract “came and went” but I left out the fact that they decided to hire me full-time. Apparently I know what I am doing, or something like that. It has been pretty interesting because after October 1st we began tapering off active development on the “legacy” platform (osCommerce). So since then I have been doing some follow-up development on minor bugs and whatnot and other than that I have been working on learning C#, SharePoint and Microsoft CRM.

It has been pretty cool being able (see having some time) to read up on and prototype some code / projects with C#. On top of that being able to integrate the C# development into web parts on the SharePoint server. I’ve been trying to spend as much time as possible working with it, but it is still busy at work. We have been working pretty closely with the consultants to help wherever we can to get this project launch ready for next year. I have been doing some front-end work, data exports and manipulation, etc; some of it tedious but it’s understood its for the greater good.

On another note, the year is nearly over. I did not realize that the next 4 weekends I am going to be either gone or busy. This Thursday night, my buddy Tylar and I are leaving for Las Vegas for MineCon for the weekend (maybe we’ll even write an article or two about it on VGVee). Next weekend is Turkey Day (Thanksgiving in the US) weekend and the following weekend Cindy and I are going to be leaving for Hawaii for a week. Guess I planned everything pretty well, haha…

It is very possible that this will be the last post for the year, unless I find something I need to write about before then. So, if that is the case, have a great holiday season and happy new year. I’ll be the drunk guy drinking, as usual.

Welcome back!

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Well, I spent like 240 hours (quite an exaggeration) typing up my about me section, so I am pretty well tapped out on the writing front. However, the 404 page on the main page was bothering me, you know since there were no posts… Anyway, I am working hard on teaching myself C# to make myself a bit more marketable, robust, etc. I found out PHP can only get you so far in this business and with my desires to one day work in some capacity for Microsoft, I figured something like C# would be a safe bet.

So far, I am pleased with C# and my transition is working out pretty well so far. I mean, it is quite a bit different from PHP, but it seems that since I understand how code is supposed to work syntactically, it does make it a little less painless to learn. The biggest issue is figuring out what resource to use to do certain things, but the internet is pretty damn helpful, so things seem to be clicking fairly well.

I have the next week off from work and I am sure shortly after that, I will be laid off. This is of course calculated based on the current rate of asshattery going on in this wonderful company. The good news is though, that I have a C# resource book coming in the mail by the end of the week, so I am sure devoting a few hours here and there is going to help this learning process.

As far as a job, I have a couple projects that are pending release, and depending on how they are received will determine a portion of my “next-steps”. The wife and I have been looking at Redmond, WA as our next place of residence, but that obviously has some contingencies, i.e. renting or selling our condo here, finding jobs (Hey Microsoft, I love you, and so does my wife!). We have already found the apartment we want to rent when we went on our awesome road trip to visit Washington. We shall see.