Dec
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Back on the Market - and other topics
December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Well I am now finished with my contract in Ottawa so that means it’s back looking for a new contract and who knows where that will be.
Once again, I apologise for not updating this blog for a while. In Ottawa, I was very busy going to the National Archives almost every night during the week and as it was open until 11 pm that did not leave much time for anything else.
I do not regret it, I took over 27,000 photos of material from 117 boxes of war diaries and analysing that material will be both interesting and time consuming. War Diaries are primary source material and are extremely valuable contentwise, although you have to wade through a lot of trivia to build a full history of the unit concerned.
There are over 300 boxes of war diaries on Canadian infantry battalions so I have a long way to go, but I probably have enough material for at least the first volume of a series of books on units of the Canadian Army in the Second World War that I would like, one day, to write.
In the meantime, some of the material will go onto the http://www.ordersofbattle.com website.
Things have been quiet on the .NET Framework development front, I am working on a set of generic index and record edit forms to handle data from many different tables. At run time, the form sets up the appropriate controls for the table concerned, so adding functionality for a new table is a snap, you just add a constructor for the table concerned and add code to handle the different events.
I have already written something similar for the various unit and person tables, such as Unit History, Appointments, Unit Notes etc. I am now trying to write code for all the other tables such as Unit, Person, Rank, Role, Award etc.
I am also working on creating a new colour scheme for the ordersofbattle.com website as I feel it is time for a change. I hope to finish this and get it published before New Year.
Obviously, as it is Christmas, I have obligations to fulfill, meals to cook and eat etc so that cuts into my development time.
Ta ta for now
Dec
24
Happy Christmas!!
December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Wishing all my visitors a very happy Christmas and New Year!
