Friday, May 31, 2002
"On the road again. I can't wait to be on the road again." Blah, blah.
Melanie and I are heading to her home town this afternoon to attend a wedding. We plan on spending the rest of the weekend there so she can visit with her sisters and I can write an article on the ten top things to consider when building a web service. I'm not exactly sure how I got sucker into writing this article, but once it is done I will be excited about it.
Thursday, May 30, 2002
I have to admit .NET makes coding easier. I wrote this simple web-based photo album application in a couple of hours. Now it will be much easier for me to post images on the web.
posted by Kirby Turner | May 30 12:38 AM | comments (0)Monday, May 27, 2002
Haha! Finally I am on the top of Google Search: kirby turner.
posted by Kirby Turner | May 27 08:12 PM | comments (0)Melanie and I just returned from East Durham in the Catkills of New York state. We were there to enjoy beers and music at the 25th Annual East Durham Irish Festival. Headlining the festival was the Saw Doctors. Other bands appearing included The Prodigals, The Glengarry Bhoys, Andy Cooney Band, and more. My favorite by far was Ontario Canada's Glengarry Bhoys. These cats really got the crowd shaking, moving, and jumping.
Despite some transportation problems this turned out to be a great weekend. We joined the Early family, an Irish family that have been friends of Melanie's for years, on our trek up state. There is never a dull [or quiet] moment with the Early family and friends. Activities around the house were non-stop. And the Shepherd's Pie has never been better! I can't wait to join everyone next year.
Thursday, May 23, 2002
How many works can a person work before spontaneous combustion occurs?
posted by Kirby Turner | May 23 07:42 AM | comments (0)Wednesday, May 22, 2002
The correct answer to any architectural question is always "it depends." -- Advanced DOTNET E-mail List
posted by Kirby Turner | May 22 09:38 PM | comments (0)More news about Accenture's new Web Service and Application Development Platform for Microsoft .NET. This time from InfoWorld.
Accenture to roll out Web services development tools
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
Cool! This eWeek article 2002 A Model Year for App Dev talks about my latest project. A quote from the article: "Accenture in July will launch Accenture Web Service and Application Development Platform, which will be available as a hosted service, said Michael Condon, director of the company's Web services consulting group."
posted by Kirby Turner | May 21 10:50 AM | comments (0)Monday, May 20, 2002
Ever feel stupid? Well I do right now. Last week I turned on my TV and poof...no picture. So I pressed the power button on the remote a few more times. Still no picture. Next I tried the power button on the TV unit and still no picture. The TV is toasted I thought
Not wanting to spend the money on a new TV, I decided to call for home service. 75 bucks for a home visit! But that is cheaper than a new TV. So after going almost a week without a TV or Amped! for Xbox for that matter, I scheduled an appointment for a service visit between 1 and 5 pm. Don't you just love those service windows. 5:15 and no technician. Figures! So I call. He is running late and will be here within an hour. No problem. I am working anyway.
Finally the tech arrives. I buzz him into the building. We get ready to move the TV to the floor so he can take off the back of the set. I unplug the TV before the move and hear what sounds like the TV turning off! "No!" I think, "Don't tell me all I needed to do was unplug the TV!" We move the TV to the floor but before the tech removes the back off the set I plug it back in. And guess what. The damn thing turned on!
75 bucks to have a tech watch me unplug and plug in the TV. Now talk about feeling stupid.
Sunday, May 19, 2002
After spending the last few hours trying to access CVS repository stored on Windows 2000 through SSH, I finally give up. My final conclusion is the CVSNT does not work SSH when CVSNT is on the server-side. From all I have read and seen, CVSNT with SSH works fine with the CVS server is some flavor of Unix. This bums me out because I really don't care to install Linux at home and I would like to use TortoiseCVS as my WinCVS GUI client.
All is not lost though. I think I can use another WinCVS to access my CVS repository. I was able to successfully access it with the CVS command line using SSPI for Windows authentication. And by using the -x, you can ensure that the network traffic is encrypted. Still, I would rather use SSH.
This weekend's geek out weekend involved setting up a new remote development environment for myself. My plan was to roll out a hosted version of CVS (Concurrent Versions System) with secure access via SSH. I used OpenSSH on Windows from Network Simplicity, which was easy to install and configure. OpenSSH also includes SCP, a secure copy program, which I am now using to make backups of important information from my laptop to my file server. Totally sweet, I must say.
CVSNT was a bit of a challenge compared to OpenSSH but I did get it installed and running. The final step was to provide remote access to my CVS repository through a secure tunnel using SSH. This has proven to be very challenge and I have yet to finish this goal. I have search the Net over and have learned many others have had the same problems. This is preventing me from building the desired remote development environment, which means I must continue using VPN access to my Visual Source Safe repository.<sigh>
Not all is lost though. I learned a lot about security, secure access, PKI, OpenSSH and such. And I have a easy to use, fast, secure process for backing up files from my laptop. I am not giving up on the challenge either. I will try again in a couple of weeks when I have more time.
I have been slacking on the weblog lately. What can I say? I have had too many things going on at the same time. Hopefully I will find the time to start making new posts.
posted by Kirby Turner | May 19 04:51 PM | comments (0)Monday, May 13, 2002
I am once again trying to e-mail post feature of blogger.com. I really like the idea of this feature but I have been experiencing problems with it in the past. I just noticed a series of tests were finally posted to my weblog weeks after the messages were originally sent. Hopefully that problem has been fix.
I'm back from Jamaica and Memphis and back into .NET. This morning I learned how easy it is to internationalization your ASP.NET applications. The .NET SDK has a simple to follow walk through explaining how to create and use string resource files and satellite assemblies. Having built web-based applications that support multiple languages before, I really appreciate how simple it is to internationalize ASP.NET applications.
posted by Kirby Turner | May 13 04:50 AM | comments (0)Saturday, May 11, 2002
Congratulations to my sister Renay and her new husband Tommy, who were married earlier today. It is really hard to believe my little sister has become a beautiful young lady. I wish the two of them total happiness in their new life as husband and wife. And a special "good luck" to Tommy who is going to need it. Just joking, Renay. I love you both.
posted by Kirby Turner | May 11 11:15 PM | comments (0)Friday, May 03, 2002
Not like anyone really cares, but I am heading out of town again. KC last weekend. NYC this week. And early tomorrow Melanie and I will be heading off to Jamaica for some fun in the sun. We will be stopping over in Memphis mid-week to visit with friends and family, and to watch my sister get married. It's hard to believe she is not a kid any more.
posted by Kirby Turner | May 3 03:07 PM | comments (0)