Showing posts with label rambling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rambling. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

DNN Module Development Progress

Okay. Taking a break for today. Here's a summary of what I've done:

  1. I've modified the structure of the Punch module database table.
  2. Modified the related Stored Procedures in the db.
  3. Updated the data controller functions in the module souce. These are found in App_Code/[Module Name]/SqlDataProvider.cs
  4. Updated  DataProvider.cs to reflect the modified function headers. In the book, it refers to their signatures. Is this their "prototype" as it used to be called? Or is prototyping the mere act of informing another section of code about the function headers, as in an #include statement in old-time C?
    This is done because SqlDataProvider.cs implements the actual functions defined in DataProvider.cs (sql d.p. is an implementation of the abstract d.p.)
  5. Updated the TimePunchInfo class, which contains the information for a single record retreived from the db. This is cool. This is basically the data item that you insert and retrieve. In the case of the TimePunch module, it's the individual punch (in or out) of a user.
    in the store, this might be a store item, it might be a buyer, a transaction. What else? Oooh. Exciting.

The next thing to do, according to the book, is start work on the presentation layer, which is the part that connects to the DNN UI. This involves the settings control, the edit control and the view control, each with its own .ascx files, source code and reasource files. I'll see you on page 246, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Saturday, December 09, 2006

My mind

wants out.
It thinks it can do better inside someone else's head.
It says it's put up with my shit for long enough, and it's time we saw other organs.
I try to suggest a break. Or maybe therapy. But my brain says we tried that once, and it didn't go anywhere 'cos I wasn't committed, that I just kept rehashing the same old shit about my parents, dodging the real issues.
I try to calm down my mind, because I know it's our destiny to be together. I know that the hardships are irrelevant, they are only lessons to be learned. There is no material world.
It tells me to cut the crap and get a real job. Get some respect for myself, look at me.
Well, fine. We'll see how well it does out there without me.
Consider our relationship over. I'm asking it to leave tonight and please take its stuff, there's nothing left for it in here.

And take your goddamn ganglia with you, you lousy piece of gooey cabbage.