Well after my scare in December, I got back in the shop in January for some new woodturning projects.  It started with a custom made detail gouge that I created as part of a turn and learn session at the January Buckeye Woodworker and Wood Turners meeting.  As usual, it was another great meeting.  I had a chance to meet and talk with Dave Hout who started the club back in '92 and currently has a woodturning show on the DIY Network.  I...

As those who have followed my blogs for the past couple of years know, besides computers, I love working with wood.  I have had my own wood shop in the basement for the past 6 years and when I have some free time I love to go down and put my more creative side to work.  I have often heard developers debating about whether programming is an art or a science or a bit of both.  I have personally spoken to many different programmers throughout the years and have found that many people in our field have a strong passion for creative endeavors, whether it is painting, music or even woodworking.  I think it is a natural extension of the creativity a developer uses when programming.  It is much more than a mere technical exercise of taking a set of specs and turning them into a completed application....

I have been a fan of Rob Connery's work on SubSonic for a while now.  As readers of my blog know, I have also been exploring PowerShell quite a bit lately as well.  Recently, I had a need to update a DotNetNuke module to PowerShell 2.0.3.  Unfortunately, some of the APIs had changed between SubSonic 1.x and 2.x.  Because of the desire to keep the module Medium Trust compatible I don't use the build-provider and instead pre-generate my DAL.

In the past I had used the sample web app to generate the classes for just those tables needed for my module.  In this iteration, I decided to go the SubCommander route and generate the needed classes from the command-line.  The SubSonic web-site has a batch file...