{"id":15,"date":"2011-07-07T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spatially-oriented.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2012-04-16T17:44:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:44:56","slug":"some-cool-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spatially-oriented.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/some-cool-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Some cool projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s been a while since I posted a small blog entry. I&#8217;ve been working on some projects at work and at home, so I barely even thought about blogging.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Basically, for the last couple of months I didn&#8217;t really give myself any time off doing &#8216;whatever-I-want&#8217;. I didn&#8217;t feel like I waisted my time though! I had a lot of fun hanging around with friends, gaming, riding bike, but I haven&#8217;t really paid much attention to my personal programming projects. There are a few at this moment. First of all, I had a few courses last year on C#, to prep me for MS Certification. I also spent some time practacing some of the newer (ie. stuff I never have to use unless I am forced to use a specific technique) things. Things like principals, things like LINQ. So I started a few apps to train me in some of those fields. At this moment I have 2 apps under construction.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, there is a datapump application. It is entirely based on generics. It&#8217;s purpose is to do a full data synchronisation between two databases. The could be Oracle, MSSQL or PostGreSQL. Even crosslinked! Well&#8230; so far I&#8217;ve only spent time in the generic stuff which is basically done. Then there&#8217;s the translation part (ie. resolving differences in datatypes and other DDL-related differences) and then there is the actual filling of the target database. However, I never got this far yet.<\/p>\n<p>Second C# app I&#8217;m working on was started because of a personal need. I tend to buy lots of stuff. To some it may seem as useless stuff, but I like it. However, I can never really figure out my incoming\/outgoing flows, so I started an app for that. For this app I used NHibernate, and I really like that as well! The app itself isn&#8217;t really far yet, all I did so far was being able to import a CVS of my bank into the database. Too bad every bank uses a different format. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the work side, I did have my Oracle Spatial course which was a lot of fun. I did learn a few tricks, especially on the backend. Ofcourse, it&#8217;s nice to be able to do distance calculations on a line, but I rarely ever use that at this point. So I&#8217;m probably going to need to look that up again in due time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another project I&#8217;ve been working off and on for about 2 years now is my OpenLayers\/Joomla mashup, which is actually looking like something now. 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