Random Thoughts of Jorriss

I’m sorry to tell you folks that I will no longer be making any more posts to the Tech category on this blog. That’s right no more technical content. But I’m pleased to announce a sister blog Technical Thoughts of Jorriss at www.jorriss.com. I have already ported all of the Tech posts form jorriss.com to jorriss.net. So if you want to hear my thoughts and solutions on a variety of technology subjects head on over to jorriss.net or subscribe to the jorriss.net RSS feed. Enjoy.

Chris Sells, mensa member, Windows coding hero and all around guru has posted some great tips for project managers (program managers for those in Microsoft). I wish all project managers would follow his advice.

PM Skill #0: Know Your Job
PM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
PM Skill #2: Building Consensus
PM Skill #3: Getting Things Done
PM Skill #4: Exhibiting the Behavior You Want
PM Skill #5: Unblock Others First
PM Skill #6: Be The Team Mom
PM Skill #7: Use That Meeting Time!
PM Skill #8: Give Credit Freely
PM Skill #9: Learn From The Masters

One of my favorite channels on XM Radio is The Torch. The Torch played a nice mix of Christian rap and rock. Of course I still listen to plenty of The Call but sometimes I want to mix it up on the XM dial. Unfortunately, The Phantom Tollbooth is now reporting that XM Radio has pulled The Torch. That’s right you will no longer be able to hear alternative Christian rock/rap on your XM receiver. It will be only available via the crappy online feed. But there is something you can do about it. Sign the Save The Torch petition to let XM know that you support modern Christian broadcasting. Of course, you can always listen to the replacement for The Torch, enLighten the all Southern Gospel channel. Ewwwww.

For almost four years I’ve been using Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA. CSLA or the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture is a framework to build business objects. It’s a powerful architecture that provides many different features for middle-ware objects (automating validation logic, n-level undo, and databinding support just to name a few). Personally, I wouldn’t start an application without it. Rocky has updated the framework once again this time with version 2.0. It includes better validation (it also breaks some of my code, thanks Rocky), authorization support and updates to the data portal. As usual Rocky has updated his books Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and Expert C# 2005 Business Objects to reflect these new changes. DotNetRocks has been busy showing the world CSLA.Net 2.0. They have featured Rocky and the new changes to CSLA in their weekly podcast. They have also created a video on how CSLA works on their DNR TV show. For more information on CSLA you can try the CSLA message board, the CSLA Desktop Reference, or the CSLA wiki.