It has been a lot of work, but tonight I finished updating the website and released Version 1 of Chef Kitchen Management System. Give it a whirl and then tell others to try it too!
Now it’s on to the world of Google Analytics and AdWords 🙂
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256MB.
I suck. Today I went to add 1GB of RAM to my webserver that I just happened to have laying around. I opened the case to find a single 256MB stick of RAM running the machine. No wonder it has been slower than molasses!
I apologize for being a software guy and forgetting that I apparently stole its RAM a while back.
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Domains
Ok, so I have a question. Which of the following domain names should I use as the main domain for Chef?
EjiChef.com
EjiChef.net
MyRecipeSoftware.com
TheRecipeSoftware.com
EjiSoftware.com
I own all of the above, and will point them to whichever is the best to use as the main domain.
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Chef and Vista
As I mentioned last night, I made the 1.0.0 build of Chef and started doing some installation testing on Vista.
It’s official – Vista’s UAC is kicking my ass. It’s during the database setup that I’m having the problem. Sql Server gets installed OK, it’s for some reason the database restore that times out.
Kinda tired of running the sql express install at this point.
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A welcome to M. Wilson
Mr. Wilson has finally started a blog. Be kind to him, he’s a good guy.
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Vi
Any Vi fans out there like myself that spend their days in Visual Studio? A couple years ago I looked around for a way to get Vi behavior in the Visual Studio editor, but came up empty handed.
Then I was browsing around this morning and ViEmu for Visual Studio appeared. Finally! I just installed the 30 day trial and so far it’s exactly what I wanted: vi functionality tightly integrated with Visual Studio without losing VS’s other great features. I’ll be trying it out for a few days and see if I run into any issues – I’m not an advanced vi user so I don’t expect I’ll find any. But if I do, the author seems to have excellent response times to issues and feature suggestions so I’m not too worried about it.
Check it out, I think this guy’s got a great product.
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Week Roundup
It has been a busy week.
I’m sitting here waiting on the 1.0.0 build of Chef to complete so I can begin testing. 5 months ago I targeted April 1 as the release date, but I feel very good about have the code complete and starting thorough/final testing on that date. I’ve worked on the last few features and bug fixes for about 5 hours today and it’s looking good. I’ll just need to do some end-to-end testing on the various platforms, polish up the release website and I’ll be all done.Yesterday Ana and I spent a couple hours digging up our side yard. Last year’s grubs were terrible to it, killing all of the grass and paving the way for dense weeds. We’ll be tilling it up and replanting grass in the next week or so. It sucked, and I hoped we don’t have to do that again.
The work week went well, but started off rough with Ana having to take Neo (one of our cats) to the emergency vet at 3:30am Monday. A month or so ago he had a urinary problem that we treated, but it apparently didn’t go away completely so he got blocked and couldn’t go to the bathroom. He woke us up in the middle of the night howling, and he couldn’t move without pain. He spent 3 days at the vet and is back home now, in a pseudo-solitary confinement so we can monitor his bathroom usage. His medication will last a couple weeks but we should be able to let him out of solitary in a day or two.
There’s great weather outside.
The Cardinals are starting their season.
That’s all I’ve got.
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StarUML
Last night I conducted a little research into free/opensource UML diagramming tools for Windows. I’ve done this search a few times during the past several years and have tried a variety of the top-dogs. The best one I can recall was ArgoUML but it’s UI behaved so annoyingly unpredictable that I ended up ditching it after just a short amount of time. A runner-up was Dia, but it was a more general purpose diagramming tool that, again, had a pretty clumsy interface.
I didn’t expect to run across anything new in this search. I actually came close to just buying Visio – it’s general purpose, obviously, but its interface is far from clumsy. Then I ran across StarUML. From the 30,000ft view, it appears to be a good tool. It’s definitely worth putting into use and seeing how it handles under real usage scenarios. Has anyone reading this ever used it?
It’s a responsive win32 app, which pleases me because I’m sick of the crappy Java UML tool UIs I keep finding.
So I think I’ll give this one a shot for future development. I’ll report back my findings.
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JRE and Google Desktop?!
Can someone please tell me why on earth I was just asked if I wanted to install Google Desktop when installing Java’s new runtime? I don’t enjoy using Java apps, and this sure doesn’t help its case with me.
Seriously, it’s a runtime platform. Don’t ask if I want to install 3rd party helper applications! Just so we’re clear, I’d be just as mad if Microsoft prompted to install other apps with the .NET Framework. There’s just no excuse. ‘
Damn you, Sun. What’s next, QuickTime? RealPlayer?
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New Orleans
This is the area where, over night last night, some individual(s) spent approximately $700 of my money. At a Wal-Mart, a Popeye’s Chicken, and a Shell gas station.
This morning I received a call from my bank, saying they wanted to validate some suspicious activity on my debit card. The gentleman mentioned they were from Louisiana and were from yesterday. Well, Ana was in Louisiana for the past two days, so I thought nothing of it and said things were just fine. I was stupid, didn’t ask for a dollar amount or anything, he just mentioned in passing that Wal-mart was involved.
Something was nagging at me so I called Ana and asked if she had bought anything down there at Wal-Mart and she said she hadn’t. Uh oh. I called the bank back and talked with him more and learned that around $700 had been spent in total and that they were now closing my card.
I just had to sign a few papers and should be getting a new card in a couple days.
Oh, what fun.
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