Reflection - Iteration 7

My poster now says "Iteration 7 of 9" with is a added comment in big black marker of "OMFG" underneath it. Ok, it's not that bad yet, however, I'm almost there. What's stressing me out right now is not the code, that part I can do, it's all the other stuff. The making sure 2430978 things that need to be done GET done and meanwhile get all the coding done. When do you know that you need someone to do this stuff for you? I think I may talk to someone about this.

Complete pieces are coming together, everything is really good looking. The site in general is going to rock all over the place, knock your AJAX off and all that. I should have a fully testable page up this week, and this page is the crux of the app so when it is done I will be pleased. Having some headaches adding the HTML right now. I made some changes and didn't test them, then added the HTML and now I am getting bugs and don't know if it's the HTML or my changes and it's too early in the morning to Inspector Gadget this mess so it's going to wait.

Besides that things are going great. I think I am going to Philly Code Camp on Oct 11th? That's exciting, it will be my first... . I was tempted to take the ALT.NET track, but I think I'm leaning toward Architecture. That's one of my weaknesses and I would like to focus more of my development around services. I wonder if you can mix and match?

I'm starting to really look forward to these education opportunities. I am missing the SQL 2008 talk at Microsoft this Thurs... so if anyone has info on another please let me know. I have heard about intellisense and multi row inserts, but would like to hear about the rest. Has everyone heard that JQuery is going to be packaged with the next Visual Studio?

SPEAKING OF SQL, if anyone out there is an expert (or even a novice at automated ETL for SQL 2005 I could really use some help. I have to admit not touching the new SSIS and am starting to miss DTS packages. The documentation is really lacking.

Thanks to everyone who has spread good will about my web absence last week. I assure you I am well and no one was hurt.  Below are some pictures from the closing ceremonies at Shea stadium this weekend, I was able to score some nosebleeds over the weekend for my brother and I (we were sans one brother, who was busy being a dad, and who is now developing pharm data acceptance apps in command line (DOS) as part of his job which is AWESOME). It a great opportunity and I'm glad we went. I was raised a Met fan along with the generation before me, and seeing the closing pitch btw Mike Piazza and Tom Seaver and all the 1807120947234 camera flashes going at once was very cool. Also being in the same place as Willie Mays? Indescribable. Someone said something about there being a baseball game between the first and second picture? I don't really remember anything of the sort.

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