If anyone besides Robin and Matt read this (and sometimes Adam) i'd be more apologetic, but as such is not the case, oh well! And to answer the question, I was in NJ for a week, but mostly I've been playing too much Final Fantasy XI.
This page was starting to look sad however, so I figured it deserved an update. Thanksgiving in OR was pretty standard fare (for us anyway!). We sat around the house and did nothing. Then Robin had to ruin it by going to volunteer at a local shelter. She's a much better person than I am.
Have some interesting stuff to work on right now. Trying to figure out the best way to perform a complex task asynchronously. Right now it takes up to 15 minutes to run, and we just increased the timeouts on the page so it can finish. The plan is to find a threshold above which the process will be kicked over to an asynchronous one which will email the user upon completion. I'm thinking MSMQ and some sort of .NET app in the backend to check the queue and process the requests. It'll be good if we can do it that way since we still haven't really adopted .NET at work for anything production related and I'd really like something to use as a wedge in the door to full-fledged .NET development. I'm just so utterly tired of VB DLL Hell.
Posted by joshua at December 1, 2003 02:40 PM