Development Activities

One of the key things I'd like to use this blog for is as a record for my weekend hobbiest dev work. I'll try and keep my professional stuff out of this, as it's mostly irrelevant.

I currently have 3 projects "on the go", 2 of which have specific annual deadlines to achieve, and the other I expect to rattle on for the rest of the year.

1. F1 Sweepstake - this has grown from a spreadsheet I threw together to track Retro's F1 Sweepstake, into a database, into a website. Next revision, due by end of Feb, is to move to a new (and actually complete without bodges) data model (done), host on MS Azure (in progress), connect through ADO.NET Entity Framework (done) and use ASP.NET MVC (in progress) to front-end with some ExtJS goodness thrown in for sprinkles.
   
2. Beavervision Scoreboard - ancient DB and what started as a Classic ASP website for our annual Eurovision party. Has been pushed within an inch of it's life. Last year I transformed it to use ExtJS and ASP.NET Web Services, it mostly worked but there were some complaints of lagginess on the dropdowns - mostly from people who have been described as "non-technical" mind.
   
3. Home Finance Package - to do. I want to replace a collection of spreadsheets which require much manual labour with "something" - probably a DB and something on MS Azure, perhaps. We'll see.

I think it's important to maintain a healthy mixture between OO and DB dev - there seems to be a "developer divide" between the 2 areas, many OO people produce the oddest SQL I've ever come across (and visa-versa), but ultimately won't the best solution come from utilising both correctly?

Or, paying someone else to do it.