Posted in Musings, Personal on Oct 28th, 2005 1 Comment »
Yay! Launch party.
However I was too optimistic with my scheduling and ended up delivering the version they wanted later in the game than was expected.
Unfortunately because of this early let down all of my hard work and racing against the clock in the end was not rewarded with anything.
Lesson learned:
As soon as I see unrealistic [...]
Posted in Code, Technical on Oct 27th, 2005 1 Comment »
Because Crystal Reports.Net has really poor documentation I’m going to post this here in case any other poor souls are running into this issue.
Basically a String type parameters have a length limitation of 255 Characters. I was passing in some text as a Parameter to be printed in the footer of a complicated report, [...]
Posted in Code, Technical on Oct 25th, 2005 No Comments »
If you are concatenating a list of items and adding a spacer between them like a , or ; you’ll need to make sure the last entry doesn’t have that separator.
So you can do something complicated like figuring out on each cycle if this the last item and not adding it or you can [...]
Posted in Personal, Technical on Oct 4th, 2005 1 Comment »
I subscribed to Make: magazine before it was even shipping. I knew it was going to be great.
After 3 issues I have to say that I am still very impressed with it.
If you are at all interested in how things work, or what kinds of modifications you can make to existing stuff this [...]