It's been a busy month which is why I haven't had many posts. I've been trying to get on track with a current RFID development project. I just have so many other competing priorities that I'm having difficulty focusing on this particular project. It's becoming more important, so I need to really get at it.
I ended up getting a new phone this month. My old, perfectly good phone, decided it wanted to take a swim with me in the Chesapeake Bay. Sufficed to say, it drowned. (Does anyone need a perfectly good antenna, home charging cable, and battery for an LG VX8000?)
I ended up buying an LG VX8300 at retail ($250 ouch). I could have gotten it cheaper elsewhere, but I need the phone for my work so I had to have it immediately. The phone is really nice. It doubles as a WMA music player (MP3 if you hack it a little). I have a few songs on it, but I'm waiting to get my microSD card from Amazon before I start seriously loading songs. I've also had some luck with BitPim and the new phone, but only with the file system. The other features don't work with the current version.
Next week I'm going to test one of our Intermec IF5 readers in a controlled environment. We had some significant performance issues at our Mexico user conference. I also need to review the beta of the Palletizer Expansion pack from GlobeRanger. I'm hoping that it will serve my architecture needs for the next version of our compliance solution, because that would reduce my work a lot.
I started working with the Enterprise Library. Specifically, I am looking at the exception and logging application blocks for my current project. At first I thought they would really be overkill, and maybe they are, but I think they will save me some time and they provide the functionality that I need. Not rolling my own limited solution is going to save me big.
On a final note, Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 has been released. I'm happy to say that the problems I've experienced with this site seem to be gone with the new version.