The DaxMindMapper Reloaded

Awesome .. my palms are sweating watching these mad b*ggers!

The Sharp End

Committed Vol II

No cycling for over 5-6 weeks .. busy finishing off previous project at N4 and starting new one at Intergraph. Also clocks have changed so either I’d be cycling in the dark (= dangerous) or, on most days, the sun dazzling everyone on the road (=v. dangerous).

Climbing is still twice a week at the Link. Over the last month I’ve tried my hand at 6bs, some 6cs and totally failed on a 7a.

As of this week I’m going for endurance training:

- Wednesday managed 2 hours of bouldering and then 2.5 hours of leading.
- Thursday managed 1.5 hours of bouldering and then 2.5 hours of climbing (started with leading but quickly degenerated to top ropping .. knackered) but I did clean (top roped) the green (5b?) overhanging route as the last climb of the evening.
- Friday .. 45 minutes bouldering during my lunch break.

Hopefully I’ll be fully recovered by next Tuesday’s climbing session.

Oh, my weight is moving up (too many cakes and too much drink). I’m back upto 13 stone - although some of this may be down to muscle gain (or the extra calluses on my fingers).

.. and loving it.

I’ve dived straight in and I’m investigating how we need to use a 3rd party charting component to display large amounts of project information in a Gantt stylee within a complex WinForm app.

The 3rd party product (GTP.NET) is not a bad starting point but it has limited control scrolling abilities in one of it’s two dimensions. I’ve created custom code to work around this.

I’m currently ironing out some of the implications of the customisation and also moving onto performance/usability testing.

Great stuff

I’m rubbish at remembering Linq short cuts and tricks, I keep having to google ‘em. So this time I’m making a note of the one post I keep coming back to: 7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ .. cheers Igor

.. and it appears that the Hero 5 camera is the new kid of the block and the one to get:

T3 review of the Hero vs the ATC.

If you get the message that all of the RDC conenctions are being used there is a third connection available via the command line:

mstsc /admin /v:server

Debug vs. Release Flavor and Debug Symbols

Due to the optimisation you get with the release version of a project (eg replace a normal method with an inline version) there won’t always be a one to one mapping of source code to the code running within the app domain but it’s better than nothing.