Letters and parcels
May. 27th, 2004 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringA package from boreal containing a book about New Zealand, which I shall enjoy immensely. Package from Microsoft containing some nerdy stuff including another card for my wallet that I'm supposed to swipe at meetings and get groovy geeky gear. Yup, they picked their audience with this one. I think there's already a T-shirt on the way.
Went to bed last night having puzzled out the syntax for ADO.NET Command objects and tried out a command or two. Works well. I find that the big thick Wrox books I have aren't all that useful for finding the stuff I need. And the VB.NET into book doesn't get into data access much at all. But good old Google comes to the rescue. Type in a few key words and there are any number of examples and discussions. Cut and paste into my code, run it up and celebrate success.
OK. Next step is the compilation of dossiers for significant events, pilots shooting down enemy aircraft, baling out, getting wounded, returning to active duty. Stuf like that. Then I can work on the map and start moving aircraft around.
Daughter wants to go shopping in a little while. She's old enough to drive anywhere in Canberra by herself, but she wants me to do the tricky bits like reverse parking and so on. Maybe I can fob her off until tomorrow when we take John for his maths lesson in Belconnen...
Pete, wearing his normal about the house clobber - a SQL Server skivvy and a fleecy top from a .NET user group
Went to bed last night having puzzled out the syntax for ADO.NET Command objects and tried out a command or two. Works well. I find that the big thick Wrox books I have aren't all that useful for finding the stuff I need. And the VB.NET into book doesn't get into data access much at all. But good old Google comes to the rescue. Type in a few key words and there are any number of examples and discussions. Cut and paste into my code, run it up and celebrate success.
OK. Next step is the compilation of dossiers for significant events, pilots shooting down enemy aircraft, baling out, getting wounded, returning to active duty. Stuf like that. Then I can work on the map and start moving aircraft around.
Daughter wants to go shopping in a little while. She's old enough to drive anywhere in Canberra by herself, but she wants me to do the tricky bits like reverse parking and so on. Maybe I can fob her off until tomorrow when we take John for his maths lesson in Belconnen...
Pete, wearing his normal about the house clobber - a SQL Server skivvy and a fleecy top from a .NET user group
