Work has sucked this week. Its been all about researching Visual Studio Shell. That means lots of webcasts and tinkering in C++. Oh, how I love thee, managed code! Please never go away!
RxFx, the WPF regular expression tool, is on the back burner. I've made some nice improvements to it, but I've had other stuff dumped in my lap. I look forward to tinkering with it again soon. But I did notice something sweet today. I was emailing Rob Relyea for some advice with using xaml serialization with POCO's, when I noticed that he had linked to my post about RxFx. What's cool about that? Well, Rob is the Project Manager for Windows Presentation Foundation at Microsoft. I love blogging...
So what have I been doing for the past two weeks? I've been working hard on SurveyHost.NET, my survey hosting website. My girlfriend, who I wrote it for, had put off working on getting her survey website up for a long time. Now we're facing a deadline. So I've given up some sleep to get it to the point where it can be actually used. It just went into beta testing (aka, friends logging in and taking the survey). Apart from the normal issues of serving a pretty heavy weight asp.net app on a web server with only 384mb that also hosts my blog, its gone pretty well. I just need to convert the hard-coded participant screening process over to a configurable one and I can create a release for it. After that, its getting converted to MVC. I look forward to that process!
Speaking of Blogengine.NET, are there any people reading this that use it out there? Here's something to do when you're bored: Set a relatively low limit on the memory used by BE's worker process (say 256mb). Watch it get recycled every minute or so. What's up with that?