Well, the NPFH (New Project From Hell) is still kicking my ass, so blogging remains a low priority. A summary of my life over the last few weeks is the travails of database programming in VB.NET, a new tool for me. For those interested in my impressions of this fine development tool, I present the following:

VB.NET Rules – Real Object Oriented Programming. Everything's a class. There's inheritance and includes and everything you could want in a language! Huzah.

VB.NET Sucks – Real Object Oriented Programming. You now have to deal with all the classes and crap. And it’s a completely new object model, with all kinds of common old VB features gone. Lame.

VB.NET Rules – The new data access model in Visual Studio .NET has a feature that auto-generates SQL commands. Groovy.

VB.NET Sucks – Said SQL command builder doesn't fucking work. Ass.

VB.NET Rules – Oh, wait, it does work. Yeah!

VB.NET Sucks – But only sometimes. And it won't tell you why it's not working. Ugh.

VB.NET Rules – Setup programs are quick and easy to build. Sweet.

VB.NET Sucks – The setup programs require the .NET Framework installed to work, which it won't install automatically. If you're doing database work, it requires another install, which is also not capable of being included in the setup. This is the lamest thing ever. What the fuck was Microsoft thinking here?

So, anyways, that's it. There's some nice features, but goddamn, these problems sure are frustrating. Not that any of you care...