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I'm Moving. Sunday, February 26, 2006 My blog will be here starting March 1, 2006. I'll start using Google Analytics to track my pages. Hopefully I won't have to copy/paste the script EVERYTIME I post. There should be something I can do in the templates. Meanwhile, I'll be redoing my website...yet again. 1 comments 
Right Tool for the Right Job. Saturday, February 25, 2006 We have been working on a (.NET, C#) project (yes, believe it or not we still are) and ran into something about ExecuteScalar and ExecuteNonQuery. We needed to know when to use each. I just got an article today that explains what to do and what not to do. Simple? Yes. Common knowledge? Well, we did have to research it. "Use ExecuteScalar to execute a query to return a single scalar value and use ExecuteNonQuery to execute an action query and return no values." -John.Papa (from CodeBetter.com). As for Eclipse, since VS2003 doesn't have refactoring tools, I found this site. It gets you started on Eclipse without the hassle of re-learning the basic concepts of programming. Refactoring tools are sweet. I wish VS2003 had it. Development would have gone so much smoother for simple mindless tasks like renaming. I'm creating a project with various samples on how to use the refactoring tools while I learn what push down, pull up, etc. are. I'll zip and post it somewhere. 1 comments
UH Cougar Basketball. Sunday, February 19, 2006 We're awesome this year. I never really paid attention until I heard we were 17-6 (7-3; C-USA) and we were on a 7 game winning streak. After tonight's game, were are 18-6 (8-3 ; C-USA) and on a EIGHT game winning streak! The next home game is Wednesday, March 1 against RICE. Their record is currently 11-13 (5-6 C-USA). Saturday, March 4, we play at Memphis (#3)! GO COOGS! 0 comments
VS .NET versus Eclipse. Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Visual Studio .NET 2003 versus Eclipse 1.3.1 (Web Tools Platform). So, even though I only have a few days (7 workings days to be exact) with Eclipse, there are already a few of things I wish Visual Studio could do. 1. CTRL + mouse click to get to the variable/function/etc. declaration. 2. Very lightweight. I can get it all setup within a half hour time frame; from download (on broadband) to installation and to starting it up. None of that 3 hour thing. 3. ECLIPSE IS FREE. Yeah, you can't beat that price. Now here are a few things VS .NET can do I wish Eclipse could do. 1. Better folder/project/solution/workspace. Although Eclipse allows more flexiblity (Sohel says so), starting off with Eclipse is much more difficult to manage. As they say, with great powers come great responsibility (go Spider-Man!). As of now, I obviously have little responsibilities...sigh. 2. GUI/Web projects are already integrated with Visual Studio, even though there is a lot of room for improvement. 3. Debugging is far superior than Eclipse. Let me know if I have any false impressions of either application. I need to know the best and most efficient method of programming whether I'm using Eclipse OR Visual Studio .NET 2003. On another note, my new graphics card (sorry Long, I didn't want to cancel and wait even longer for it to come in!) is ALMOST here. It just arrived in Houston! Too bad PackageMapper doesn't track UPS shipments anymore. =( 1 comments
Java/Eclipse and METRO. Wednesday, February 08, 2006 So I've downloaded and installed Eclipse 3.1.2 and JDK (1.)5.0. I'm learning the basics: threads, collections, exceptions, and i/o from the Sun tutorials. What I need is a small project that uses all the above concepts as well as XML (FpML), both reading and writing. Maybe a RSS reader? (YES, again...) I'm not sure. Let me know if you have some ideas of small project(s) to work on to learn Java/Eclipse. I'll also need to learn to use some magic (but have no resources for), like: Hibernate and Swing. On another note, I just bought a bus pass and I'll be riding the METRO everyday. Here is some math:
*$75 worth $92.50
Bottom line: I'll be saving ~$1.27 per day plus all that time NOT driving well spent on book. P.S. Shawshank Redemption is awesome. "I hope" you find it as good as I do. 3 comments
Super Bowl XL. Monday, February 06, 2006 The fun is here. BTW, I got the Flickr Pro Account. It's worth it. All my pictures showed up. WHOOT! 0 comments
HAS Is Cool. My Pictures at the 2006 Houston Auto Show. Here's a sneak peek:
All of my old (200+) pictures are lost!...but not really. I should buy a Flickr account: $24.95 a year will get me 2GB upload limit, unlimited storage, bandwidth, photosets, permanent archiving, and OMGs...ad-free browsing and sharing! Or 47.99 (23.995 per year) for a 2 year account. 1 comments
JPMC NYC Training. Sunday, February 05, 2006 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Acronyms like crazy. We seem to love them.
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