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raalnan5- November 25th, 2011
It's been years since I updated the BLOG, so I guess it could be considered “defunct” by now. I took a position in Washington DC, moved to NoVA, and now, I'm learning lots of new stuff. I work primarily with C#, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Visual Fusion (A G.I.S. application) now. With the exception of the tight deadlines, I'm loving it. It's a lot to learn, and I'm hacking and slashing my way through it. I do a lot of driving these days. From DC to NoVA to Harrisonburg to Roanoke, and back again. These days, I find that I have little time to manage my life. I spend so much time on the go. Hopefully, I'll get it all under control soon.
- Sorting a DataTable in VB.Net
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- raalnan5
- December 29th, 2010
Sometimes, you may find that you need to sort a DataTable. I had originally found the script here, but I decided to encapsulate it.
Private Function SortDataTable(ByVal Sort As String, ByVal dtUnsorted As DataTable) As DataTableDim dtSorted As DataTable
Dim drSorted As DataRow
Dim dcSorted As DataColumn
Dim drUnsorted As DataRow
Dim dcUnsorted As DataColumn
dtSorted = New DataTable
dtSorted.TableName = "dt" + Sort
For Each dcUnsorted In dtUnsorted.Columns ' Add the columns to the DataTable
dcSorted = New DataColumn
With dcSorted
.DataType = dcUnsorted.DataType
.ColumnName = dcUnsorted.ColumnName
End With
dtSorted.Columns.Add(dcSorted)
Next
dtUnsorted.DefaultView.Sort = Sort
For i As Integer = 0 To dtUnsorted.DefaultView.Count - 1
drSorted = dtSorted.NewRow
For Each dcUnsorted In dtUnsorted.Columns ' Add the columns to the DataTable
drSorted(dcUnsorted.ColumnName) = dtUnsorted.DefaultView(i)(dcUnsorted.Col
umnName) Next
dtSorted.Rows.Add(drSorted)
Next
Return dtSorted
End Function
- Union Busting
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- raalnan5
- September 26th, 2010
While Karen Lewis makes a great comedian, I wouldn't want her to be in charge of my kids. Watch this woman, and tell me how she benefits the children of Chicago's Public School system. The woman is disgusting, both physically, and as an indirect "public employee". While I favor the legalization of Marijuana (if only as a way to limit who can receive public assistance), I don't think it's appropriate for her to stand up there talking about how many brain cells she had killed off prior to taking the job. Is that supposed to inspire confidence in the teachers, or the parents of the students? Is it just me, or is she making fun of the man's lisp? Isn't that bullying? Is she characterizing homosexuality, or a physical condition? Doesn't that make her the biggest hypocrite ever? Also, I'd love to know why she is so determined to go to jail? Does that make her a good role model? As she puts it, she wants to lose weight, so she can fit in the cell. For some odd reason, I would want higher expectations from someone who represents me, or works with the school system where America's future is being shaped.
CTU President Karen Lewis Uncensored - NSFW. 2011. http://bit.ly/uPGiPU (Accessed December 1, 2011).
- Expertise
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- raalnan5
- September 26th, 2010
- Crystal Reports
- Active Directory
- Reporting Services
- Visual Studio.Net
- SQL Server
- SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well managed Business Intelligence on a self-service basis for your users.
- Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services provides a full range of ready-to-use tools and services to help you create, deploy, and manage reports for your organization, as well as programming features that enable you to extend and customize your reporting functionality.
Reporting Services is a server-based reporting platform that provides comprehensive reporting functionality for a variety of data sources. Reporting Services includes a complete set of tools for you to create, manage, and deliver reports, and APIs that enable developers to integrate or extend data and report processing in custom applications. Reporting Services tools work within the Microsoft Visual Studio environment and are fully integrated with SQL Server tools and components.
With Reporting Services, you can create interactive, tabular, graphical, or free-form reports from relational, multidimensional, or XML-based data sources. You can publish reports, schedule report processing, or access reports on-demand. Reporting Services also enables you to create ad hoc reports based on predefined models, and to interactively explore data within the model. You can select from a variety of viewing formats, export reports to other applications, and subscribe to published reports. The reports that you create can be viewed over a Web-based connection or as part of a Microsoft Windows application or SharePoint site. Reporting Services provides the key to your business data.
- Welcome
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- raalnan5
- August 7th, 2010
Welcome to Raalnan5.net. We focus primarily on web development and reporting. While we do have some design abilities, we are not "web designers" in the strict sense of the word. For the most part, we provide high tech solutions to the problems businesses face. Many of the companies we work with are small, and have no need for a full time dedicated IT staff. Most of the work we do is in the form of small projects. For example, this site is an example of our content management system at work. The site design is hosted on our server, and the site content comes from a Blog site. In a production situation, this would allow you to control the site content, and leave the site design to us. Like we said earlier, we are not heavily involved in site design, but there are enough templates out there that we don't have to settle for bad design. For example, we didn't design this site, the site design template came from OSWD.org. Web applications aren't the only thing we do. We also do a few reporting projects. We work primarily with MicroSoft SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services, but we can also work with Crystal Reports as well.
- Hello stranger
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- raalnan5
- June 7th, 2010
awake
If anyone ever wonders why I don't write so much anymore, it's because I find more debating on FaceBook. Also, things have been going well lately (for the past few years), so I don't find as much need to reflect on "what went wrong" these days. It's a good thing. A few notable items are the computers, the furnace, the passport, and the renters.- the computers
- I got new laptops for Debbie and I.
- Mine is a monster gaming machine that's too big to carry in a laptop bag (I couldn't help myself). It's the size of a coffee shop table. While that completely negates the purpose of the machine (laptop = portability), I love it so much that I can't stand the idea of parting with it.
- Hers is a NetTop (or whatever they are calling them these days). It's well suited for her needs.
- I got new laptops for Debbie and I.
- the furnace
- It works, and it needs to be replaced. The trick is the fact that I don't know when it will need to be replaced, only that the repair guy says "sooner or later, she's going to give out on you". Even he admits that he doesn't know if it will be one year or three years. I know it's better to be safe than sorry, but it's also more difficult to be prudent when you have other ambitions.
- the passport
- I have it. I also have the ability to take both of us on a trip. Why haven't I booked a trip yet? See the furnace item above.
- the renters
- They are working out well. This is what I had in mind when I bought my first house. If I only knew then what I know now... What do I know now? I don't know. Whatever it is, it didn't work then, and it's doing OK now.
- 021410 GutPunch (Layoffs)
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- raalnan5
- February 14th, 2010
First of all, I should say that I have been here before, and I am sure I will pass this way again, so it makes no sense to be or feign surprise, indignation, or any other unnecessary emotion. It is like a punch in the gut, but if anything, that should only serve to prevent me from trusting any employer in the future. What to do next? Here are a few preliminary ideas in no particular order:
1.Apply for unemployment
2.Make a list of positions applied for.
3.Dry clean your clothes
4.New outfit at J Crew?
5.Check out temp jobs at Manpower
6.Update the website
7.Polish the resume'
8.Bring the personal computer up to speed.
9.Come up with some detailed descriptions of resume items.
10.Rebuild the contact list. There are plenty of people whom I have lost contact with over the years.
11.Decommission the work Laptop
12.Printer Ink
Needless to say, there are many more things I could add to the list, and no shortage of detail to be included. I am certain that adequate completion of everything on the list would successfully land me a new position. I guess it's also time I started looking into building another command center (home office). Last week, I did the job hunt at my desk in the office. That might not have been appreciated, but no one complained. At any rate, it might not be a good idea to overstay my welcome in the office, it might make people nervous. Right now, I feel like I need to do something to power up or overcome the blind application panic I have been doing for the past two days. A good example of this blind fury was when I sent out that turd formatted as a resume when I first learned of the layoff. It wasn't really a “turd”, but I doubt I'll be getting any interviews from that resume. I was panicking when I sent that out, I'm a little bit less frantic now, and my resume' is notably improved. Talking with a couple of friends the other night, I was briefly convinced of the inherent value in selling art. I'm not quite as enthusiastic about it right now. Selling art is not unlike selling software. It might be a good payoff when it gets rolling, but until it gets rolling, it won't generate income. I haven't got the luxury of waiting. I guess it's also useful to point out the fact that the layoff was not performance related, so I am eligible for rehire. Because of this, there is a possibility of getting on with my old contract. I do hope it pans out, but like I said, I trust no employer.
- The Chappaquiddick incident
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- raalnan5
- October 5th, 2009
amused
The Chappaquiddick incident is a great example of how an elite institution can not only see justice compromised, but thwarted altogether. In a strange twist of fate, Ted Kennedy, a married Senator from Massachusetts found himself leaving a party with a woman who was not his wife in the passenger seat of his car. His wife did not leave the party with him because she didn't attend the party with him. She was home, pregnant with a child that she would later lose to miscarriage. Incidentally, the woman in the car with Mr Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, left the party without her purse, or the key to her hotel. The two of them left without the Chauffeur, who had driven Senator Kennedy to the event. For a regular person, this situation already sounds suspicious, but in this case, it gets worse. Near the time of the incident, a police officer spotted a car matching the description of Ted Kennedy's automobile, down to three of the digits on the license plate. The officer didn't get a good look at the plate because the car was speeding past him after having been parked on a deserted side street. Later on, the car ended up roof down on the bottom of the water on the side of a bridge. Somehow, Ted was able to escape the vehicle, but Mary Jo Kopechne was not. Ted Kennedy did many things over the next few hours, but none of them seemed like an honest effort to rescue Mary Jo from his car, which was submerged in eight feet of water. When Mary Jo's body was finally retrieved from the car, she was found with blood in her mouth, and on her dress. She was also found with her head in a bubble of trapped air. The autopsy showed that the young lady died of asphyxiation, and not drowning. For any normal person, the situation alone would lead all rational minds to think that this involved foul play. This situation reeks of foul play even if you don't look at Kennedy's behavior during the incident, and since. Though the incident occurred at around midnight, Ted Kennedy did not come forward to the police until the next day. When he did come forward, it was only after a heated discussion with some of his friends that had helped him in his attempts to rescue the girl. The diver who did retrieve the body said that he could have had her out in twenty minutes, and that it probably took her about two hours to die. Kennedy's behavior since the incident has only served to back up the notion that he was some sort of political version of Jack the ripper. Once, at a restaurant, Kennedy and another senator, Chris Dodd, were in a private room. According to the waitress, Kennedy waited for her to enter the room. As she walked in, he grabbed her, threw her down on Chris Dodd, who had been seated at the time, and jumped on top of her. This was witnessed by two waitresses, because while they were assaulting her, another waitress happened to walk in. The tendency of the man is well established. In this, we see the tendency of the establishment. I wouldn't have to try too hard to list and illustrate a small books worth of incidents of congressional misbehavior. The fact that it is common enough to not be considered shocking is evidence to the fact that the an infestation of elitists is detrimental to justice.References
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- raalnan5
- July 22nd, 2009
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