www.Doula1.com

My wife, Andi, recently got a new domain name. Check out www.Doula1.com.

www.LittleRockMidwives.com

There is a new domain name now for the Birth Works website. It is LittleRockMidwives.com. I just registered it for them tonight.

Books That Rawk

Here are some of my favorite books. This kind-of demonstrates better my personal views on programming and design. I am very interested in a lot of the concepts made popular by Kent Beck and Martin Fowler. The style/philosophy called eXtreme Programming (XP) is very much an interest of mine.



· Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed.
· The Pragmatic Programmer - From Journeyman to Master
· Software Requirements, Second Edition
· Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET
· Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems
· Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming
· Refactoring Workbook
· Testing Extreme Programming
· Planning Extreme Programming
· UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language
· *** Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code
· *** Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
· Agile and Iterative Development
· Applying UML and Patterns
· Data Access Patterns
· Database Design for Mere Mortals - Second Edition
· Death March, Second Edition
· Design Patterns Explained
· Essential ADO.NET
· Extreme Programming Explored
· Extreme Programming Installed
· Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
· Just Enough Software Test Automation
· Lean Software Development
· Microsoft SQL Server DBA Survival Guide
· Pragmatic Unit Testing in C Sharp
· Sams Teach Yourself Extreme Programming in 24 Hours
· Test-Driven Development By Example
· User Stories Applied - For Agile Software Development
· Visual Basic Design Patterns- VB 6.0 and VB.NET
· Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server

A blog for Birth Works

I just put up a new blog for Birth Works. It is at http://birthworks.blogspot.com.

A blog for Andi

Be sure and check out my wife's blog at http://birthhelper.blogspot.com/. She is a doula and will be a midwife in the not so distant future.

eXtreme programming
Here is a new blog I started to talk about extreme programming: http://xptaskdb.blogspot.com/. If you are an eXtreme programmer then check it out. It is a database system for tracking projects using the eXtreme principles.
This new blog was inspired by a book I am reading called "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming".

Contractometer no longer supported

Contractometer by Email

Since this program seems to no longer work on anything except very old model PDA I have stopped supporting it or giving it out. I will begin rewriting it using some other (more open) programming language (AppForge annoys me). I will post announcements here about my progress on this effort. Thanks and sorry.

Update Friday, June 18, 2004:

This program seems not to work with new palms like the Tungsen 'E'. It will work with older ones like the m100 and m105 though. Sorry about this. The company (AppForge) that makes the compiler I used to create this has started changing a ton of money to upgrade the compiler. Ugh!
Contact me if you are a palmos programmer and would like to take over this program. I will *give* you the code.

Morgoth.net
My site on morgoth.net is back up. (Thanks Marty.)

[Permanently dead now it seems. {2004.01.26}]

New links for CVS4IIS
You can now get to the CVS4IIS home page using the link cvs4iis.lr-tc.com and cvs4iis.sf.net.

My Reading List
- Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming
- Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Core Reference)
- Essential ADO.NET
- Refactoring Workbook
- Testing Extreme Programming
- Visual Basic Design Patterns: VB 6.0 and VB.NET
- *** Planning Extreme Programming
- Java in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference (Java Series) (3rd Edition)
- Java Cookbook
- *** Thinking in Java
- The Java Language Specification (2nd Edition)


Books I have read:
- ***A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification
- JavaScript Bible (3rd Edition)
- Hardcore Visual Basic (2nd Edition)
- UML Distilled: Applying the Standard Object Modeling Language
- *** Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
- Java 2 Exam Cram, Second Edition (Exam: 310-025)
- *** = Super Cool

CVS4IIS
I have been working on a new project called CVS4IIS. It is being hosted at sourceforge.net. Here is a link to the project. It is going to be like ViewCVS with an integrated discussion forum where you can specify a section of code to comment on. Also other user can come and comment on your comments. A super duper code collaboration system. I decided to not have any database system involved and just write to the file system. I think that will work out better in the long run. I have most of it up and running now. Check it out and see what you think. Lots of screen shots are coming next.

Added some links on lr-tc.com to some of my new projects.

Here is a link to a blog about my a new program called Revision Rabbit. It is somthing like SourceSafe but for single users.
http://revision-rabbit.blogspot.com/

(2003-08-26)
[Update: I have been thinking about posing the code for this to sf.net or planetsourcecode.com. Not sure yet. Email me if you would like to see this.]

Created Contractometer:
http://contractometer.blogspot.com/

A palm os program for timing birth contractions.

Posted SliMsN to planet source code. It is a clone of .Net Messenger. Here is the link.

I just posted another program to planet source code. It is a program called MAIM wich is a clone of AIM (aol instant messenger). Here is the link.

I just posted a program called Auto Error Trapper Addin to planet source code. It is a vb6 add-in for doing centralized error trapping.

I have been working on a project that I am calling MAIM. It is a toc client. Another popular toc client is AIM. This is an instant messenger that supports plugins and allows you to watch every single piece of data that is sent from and to your computer. You can connect with this client and instant message anyone using AIM. It is setup to use the same network as AIM by default. It not only lets you view every little thing that is transmitted it explains what each piece of data means in great detail. I will post a link to the location where people can go to downlod it later.

Hello! I am Jason Stracner, an 'eXtreme' computer programmer.