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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5157282" data-attributes="member: 8835">Work:I started my new job a month ago.  I actually split my time between 2 businesses, doing software development.  One's in distribution, ther other is in medical/insurance.  I'm not sure how much I can discuss my actual projects (they're tackling new markets, its not my call).I can say, I am working in ASP.NET using C# and SQL Server.  I've whipped up a generic web-app framework that I keep extending, that allows me to start the "next" web app rather quickly, basically supplying me with login, user admin and basic page security, with encrypted password storage, and not using ASP.NET's lame implementation using web.config fiiles.  Mine is DB driven and designed to be used with the rest of the DB app.A core challenge I'm looking to solve is streamlining object oriented development for the 3-tier design model.  I'm ready using my own hybrid varint, where I have a DB layer that consists of just the database connection and SQL querying, an object layer where the SQL and business logic merge, and a GUI layer, where it uses the objects to get the answers it needs for display.The object layer basically compresses what would really be 2 object layers, one with the database specific stuff, and one with the business specific stuff.I can crank out objects pretty fast, they map to the tables fairly directly.  However, the designs needed for the business have more complex tables than I had expected, and my boss is used to plain ASP development and just slapping SQL calls on the page.So I'm looking to find a new "right" way to keep the segration (no SQL in the GUI layer), and further streamline setting up the objects to use the database.  LINQ sounds promising, but I haven't had a chance to look into it.  I've already got a pretty easy process of using reflection and some custom attributes to load and save the object to the database with a minimal set of code.House:I'm planning to redo the siding on my 1 story house using Hardy-plank. Home Depot will charge me $14,000 for the whole house (front and back, the sides are brick), or I can do the back half (which is in worse condition) for $1000 in supplies.gaming:I haven't really played an RPG in over a year (ran a short demo game the other day for a friend).  Work at the previous job had sucked the life out of me.  Things are getting back to normal, so hopefully this summercar:my '99 escort keeps having trouble, I blew a rod last september and put another engine.  Now the AC is out, and now today, something with the cooling is bad, because thhe temperature was nearing red-line on a cool day, when I took a very short drive in it.  I need to replace it, but I've been waiting for the paychecks to normalize with all the deductions, and insurance (now that's started), so I can see if I can swing a 2nd car payment.music:I need to play and practice more on my guitar and bass, I've forgotten too many chords, and I didn't know that many.  I really liked playing with a band, as it helped give me a goal to shoot for.  I was playing jazz for about a year and a half, but the job hunt had me out too much to continue that.books:I just finished Changes, the latest in the Dresden Files series.  It was good.  I've been pondering my own novel for some time, though I haven't written anything down.  I've got a basic idea, but I'm toying with it in my head until I'm certain I have a unique concept that makes for a good story.</blockquote>

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