current project rambling
I try not to blog too much about my “real-job” or contract work, but alas, it pays the bills. And, if it weren’t for other bloggers, blogging about their day-to-day development wins/losses/woes, I’d probably be really stuck every now and then myself….
I’m working on a really cool project right now, though. It’s great to be involved so thoroughly with a company, being able to have a really good view into how they do business to be able to offer up improvements to their processes, and even creating entirely new “workflows” and methods for doing things that weren’t even considered before. It’s also pretty cool to be able to suggest anything (from technology to processes) to get the job done right.
Without getting into too much detail, I’m working on a solution that involves a crazy cool set of technologies. While I won’t be able to fully describe it here yet, it really involves a custom linux distro (bootable over the network), a suite of Windows Services (multi-threaded, polling processes), XML processing, operating on a MSSQL database, providing “legacy” access to the data through an MSMQ-web-service gateway, and just a really neat process in general.
The great thing here is that each “technology” is used for a purpose. Using each as a tool or building block, the whole is a really slick process that automates where necessary, and is totally transparent as a whole.
Very cool stuff….
