I am torn...Being a Christian, I am not supposed to worry as God will take care of me and my loved ones (as well as all believers), but living in todays happenings really makes me wonder. I truly believe our country is completely messed up. It is nothing like what was intended by the founding fathers (yep...fathers...pretty sexist huh??) Congress was never meant to be a career, but what do we have, career politicians that have completely lost sight of reality. The Court was never meant to make up laws and use foreign laws as references, but they sure due now. The President...Hmmm...What can I say about that? Not sure. I struggle with mandated term limits because really, voting should be the term limits in my mind. But these congressmen get so entrenched in the system, that it is nearly impossible to get them out. And the money they raise and spend on campaigning is beyond ridiculous. On the other hand, the should never be a senator that is on his 5th, 6th or longer term. It just isn't right. ... Read More »
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So, I keep thinking of things I would like to blog about...Doesn't happen! I have been very busy at work trying to build up steam on the complete rewrite of the original Access based system that we run the company off of. I am moving it to VB.Net with DevExpress controls. I am using the Xpress Persitent Objects (XPO) as the basis of the new programming model for our systems. WOW! Majorly cool stuff. XPO is a business object model tool that allows you to create the business object that you are dealing with including associations (one to many, many to many, etc.). You define what database you want to use and it creates and manages the schema for you. No more creating tables, creating a datalayer, creating stored procedures, etc., etc. So far I am very impressed and am loving it. I am also using thier controls for all of my Win Forms. Their grids are amazing and I was extremely excited when I saw the Vertical Grid. It is a huge time saver for me. I am hoping to start using thier ASP.Net... Read More »
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