Zac Bowling’s Blog

I’m tired of the new tread of news sites posting cookie cutter type news. It makes me a little sick. Google News is a great way of seeing what I’m talking about. Just do a search for whatever. You should see a grouping of similar news items. They are the same exact crap with maybe two lines different. Yahoo, MSNBC, CNN, CNET News, etc. The all get the news briefs from Routers or the AP, and they all basicly a retype of the same damn story. The worst part is that they end up getting their facts wrong, or end up missing the point of the story all together.
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I hate DLLs. I hate COM. I enjoy p/invoke but hate how they didn’t make things more like it in the first place. All this meta editing I’m doing in my functions. I wish the meta tags had better documentation then Microsoft provides.


[Guid("E066F911-2722-4071-98BA-8A6C1D1ED1AF")]
public interface IAccounting
{
string[] GetAccDateQuery(string StartDateTime, string EndDateTime);
}

[Guid("04B7C857-04B5-413e-AFCD-8154FA23BA51")]
public class Accounting: IAccounting
{

Doing that just sucks.

My GPS tracking project is rolling along. Every day I get that much closer to selling it. I designed this thing to beat everyone else in the market. One of the greatest adavantages is that it has an open endded interface to allow other developers to integrate our product into the system. I wish I could give the project out under some open source licence but I need to make a living some how and I’m pretty sure the company I am doing this for might not like that. I’m not sure if I would really want to give out as open source.

I spend a lot of time writing software in my free time to give back to the open source community in the form of patches and helping people with thier issues using Debian in the #debian channel on irc.freenode.net. My next project will be porting software I wrote in the past as little “do-dads” for the Microsoft .NET framework. Maybe I might start my old SNMP .NET project back up.

Who knowns?

I’ve been busy the last few months working on my current project design my GPS tracking, navigation, dispatch, and messaging system. Right now its still in testing, but here is a sample.

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