Updates
Written on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 1:18 PM by jkeyes0
Well, I've been at my current job for almost 3 months now, and I'm still greatly enjoying it. Every day brings with it a new set of challenges, so there's little chance of things becoming stale and me getting burned out. I've been redesigning some of our C# ASP.NET applications, writing new C# console apps, and working quite a bit with Python, because I got the green light to redesign our main website using Django.
The main issue I had with Django was the lack of multi-database support. Thanks to Eric Florenzano's blog, I found a way to make it work! It's been about a week since I really did anything to the site because I've been called away to do other things, but I've tested using multiple databases and everything works wonderfully.
Speaking of Django, I've got a friend in the BGLUG who has expressed a need for a pet grooming application. The one he was looking at is a standalone Windows-only app, but I think it would be pretty painless to turn it into a web app with Django. It's pretty much just a few tables (customers, pets, appointments, employees, etc) with graphical interfaces to manipulate the data.
In other news, I've lost 10lbs since I posted about shaving my beard off (I started at 205, as of this morning I'm at 194). I've gotten lazy in the last few days and haven't shaven, so my beard is growing back. I would keep it off because of my resolution, but I'm going to keep losing weight, so I feel comfortable going ahead and letting it come back. My goal is still to lose 30lbs before the year is over, which will put me at 175. I really need to start running again. I was doing the 10-minute trainer series before Duncan was born (if you hadn't heard, check my facebook account... we had a baby!), but I haven't had any time in the evenings to work out lately, so I've just been losing weight by eating a little better.
I'll keep plugging away at my programming, and try to run when I have time. As a matter of fact, I'm going to go for a walk at work now. It looks like the rain has stopped. Later guys!
